• saltesc@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, same. Long-time user of an em-dash—love a cheeky en-dash in my ranges too. But now LLMs are using them all the time, out of context, and with spaces on either side.

      Is nothing safe?! Next it’ll be semicolons!

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      2 months ago

      It’s probably your fault, you loved em dashes too much that AI started using them after stealing all your content

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        2 months ago

        I was going to say “I don’t use em-dashes in my books for when they sole all those books” but then I went into my first book and found 22 em-dashes so… oops. I thought the word processor changed – into an en-dash and not an em-dash.

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      2 months ago

      I think you’d probably be ok with using em-dashes (I typically use en-dashes myself but I’m lazy), but don’t use cliche phrases like “It’s not [x] – it’s [reframed x]”