top | item 44790502 (no title) tinier_subsets | 7 months ago I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page. discuss order hn newest eszed|7 months ago I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct, dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice. nxobject|7 months ago This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges. ziml77|7 months ago Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you. ascorbic|7 months ago LLMs don't put spaces around their em-dashes. beAbU|6 months ago I had to take a look for myself and damn... It's almost as if this was done intentionally to be ironic or something.
eszed|7 months ago I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct, dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice. nxobject|7 months ago This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges. ziml77|7 months ago Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you.
nxobject|7 months ago This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges.
beAbU|6 months ago I had to take a look for myself and damn... It's almost as if this was done intentionally to be ironic or something.
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