It's not just an inconvenience—it's a shift in how people communicate.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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It’s sad that I read this in my head with shitty AI voice.
The "dunno how to make any dash other than - on a pc or phone" gang stays winning 
If it ain't in my keyboard I ain't typing it
do double dash for maximum human factor
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Long press baybee
-but there's no time!
Just write however you like, half the AI checkers don't work anyways.
None of the AI checkers work
Unfortunately neither do the people using them.
I mean...if you don't do prompt generation correctly and it generates broken or incorrect links and sources, you will be flagged as a fuck up and a plagiarist by safeassign; but yeah I don't trust AI checkers.
As someone who almost never uses em dashes, fuck ChatGPT
As someone, fuck ChatGPT
Dude—as someone who uses a lot of dashes—fuck chatgpt
I'm not worried ⸻ I use the three-em dash
Powerful Hexbear right here.
Also thank you for bracing that impressive dash with spaces. Only hyphens go full-contact.
Preach!
Is it really that hard people?
innovation
ChatGPT can ligma :—
Yes. I've been called a bot because I know the difference between a hyphen and a dash, and I know the esoteric arts of alt-numpad-ASCII and character map. Knowing how to write basic English and knowing the difference between a dash and an em-dash is apparently indicative of being a bot now. FML
I've been seeing a lot of complaints about AI detection software flagging certain phrases as being AI-derived seemingly at random.
I just, like, replaced it, with, commas, you know?
I almost never use dashes when typing but use em all the time writing by hand. When typing I overuse commas. A nearly comical use of parentheses is present no matter what.
As someone who uses em-dashes, the Oxford comma, and parallel phrase structures — fuck not only ChatGPT, but also all other LLMs.
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