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Sparkle-santoday at 12:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGPT.


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ruszkitoday at 5:54 AM

I’ve never read comments, articles, books in LLM’s current style before LLMs, and somehow, since then, I read comments like these every other day. This phenomenon is way overblown at the minimum. And since nobody showed a counter example from before 2022 which can be confused as LLM generated (using em dashes was never in it self that) I tend to say that it never even existed.

slopinthebagtoday at 3:29 AM

You can use em dashes as long as you don't write like a bot.