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afavour01/15/20265 repliesview on HN

The sheer number of em dashes in the text suggest to me that the reporter didn't write anything, ChatGPT did.


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zengineer01/15/2026

The other day I read some old blog posts of mine (~2016) and they contain "em dashes". According to you they were all written by AI.

bee_rider01/15/2026

If we give up every bit of punctuation that ChatGPT uses, written language will become much worse.

dartharva01/15/2026

For the last time.. Word (the program very popularly used by many reporters across the world to write articles) automatically autocorrects hyphens to em-dashes according to the default loaded grammar rules for En-US. The existence of em-dashes in an article does NOT immediately imply GenAI slop.

m-schuetz01/16/2026

ChatGPT learned to use em dashes from somewhere. They were widely used before LLMs.

swiftcoder01/15/2026

You know posh schools teach people to write with em dashes too, right?

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