Comment by pottertheotter

1 year ago

Never thought someone would be anti em-dashes.

I am anti-reading content generated by probabilistic model of human language, especially if published without much editing. Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

  • I can’t comment about other venues, but on Hacker News it’s not at all. The type of people to assiduously use appropriate dashes, quotation marks, &c. have always been heavily represented here.

  • It used to be it was easy to tell apart Mac and Windows users by em dash usage. Now apparently Mac users are considered LLMs.

  • Do people have to lower their literacy to the level of a 6 year old and write like complete dumbasses in order to convince you that something isn’t AI generated?

    I’m sure that pointing out the word ‘delve’ or the use of em-dash says more about the literacy of the reader than it does about the humanity of whoever wrote it.

  • > Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

    I see the blind superstition stage of AI has set in