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genuinely why the fuck has my favourite writing tool, the em dash, been forever tainted by ai (hexbear.net)
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literally unusable if you don't want to be seen as an illiterate chatgpt monger. so depressing. I'm tired of using semi colons and commas in their stead, they're just too clunky in certain situations. burn the data centers down. fuck and when all actual writers have switched over, like I have (not calling myself a writer fyi), then the ai will just start using those instead. nothing good comes from generative, recreational ai. opium crisis of our times, no use. genuinely, no use. fuck them all. fuck the child herder elon and his (possibly) bastard son peter thiel. karp fuck you too

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[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's ableist is what is — what am I, an ADHD-haver, supposed to do? Use a period??? When there's more sentences to be made????? Questions I can do, but a period with a short sentence feels odd; though I've taught myself to do it, because I was told as a child that æong sentences with no period were grammatically wrong. Doesn't mean I enjoy though. It feels wrong.

[–] Jentu@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Do what I (another ADHD-haver) do. (I overuse parentheses). AI would blush at my writing style