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Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please (www.theringer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by koavf@lemmy.ml to c/typography@lemmy.ml

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Em dashes in internet prose are more redundant than not, imo.

However, the AI clues I use are beyond just the presence of em-dashes, AI seems to use them in a predictable style (in the final part of their answer). They also use emojis section headers and bolding excessively.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

Em dashes are useful and necessary punctuation.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Also you have to go pretty far out of your way to use one on a computer...