‘Correct’ is a very interesting opinion here…

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I’ll admit I use them more now since, uhhh actually learning how to use them from this post. Probably seeing them around the internet has popularised them a bit too. Plus on my mobile, it’s just as easy to use a hyphen as an em-dash.

This spunds like frequency illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Also maybe people started using them in spite of these articles–it’s kinda fun!

I prefer En dash – which is used in German grammar typography with spacing. Which seems much more readable to me.

…microsoft applications have an annoying habit of auto-replacing my dashes with emdashes; i don’t even know how to type an emdash…

So, AI uses it correctly.

Interesting. I use them like this — looks cleaner with spaces.

The AI models I’ve seen DO put spaces before and after the dash—that’s how I’ve been able to suss out LLM posts in the past. I never put spaces because it’s WRONG!

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Same. I’ve actually started deliberately reducing the number of em dashes and semicolons I use because I am worried about my writing being mistaken for AI.

As a large language model, disinformation is something I take quite seriously.

And with the machines I assume

Ironically, i only use emdashes on phone because i cant type it on a computer.

On my phone i just long-press the hyphen and—

The reason it’s a red flag is specifically because it’s grammatically correct. People don’t tend to write like that online. Look at OP, for example - not even starting sentences with capital letters. That’s why it stands out when something is written too well to be human. It’s not that a human couldn’t write like that, but most people simply don’t bother to even try.

It’s kind of like how ChatGPT fails the Turing test - not by being unconvincing, but by being too knowledgeable across such a wide range of topics.

I think you’re missing the point here. Nobody is saying em dashes are making texts worse.

They’re just one of many indicators that can together allow for a good guess as to whether a text is AI generated or not.

Of course not all texts using them are AI generated, but if you also bold random words, use a lot of unnecessary and obscure emoji, put everything into bulletpoints and end your text with a useless summary, then people might get suspicious.

Depending on the phone and keyboard, I actually find it easier to use em and en dashes on mobile instead of the computer. Usually on mobile I can just hit the button for numbers/symbols and long-press the hyphen-minus, then select the appropriate alternate dash. Usually on a computer I need to open a special character window and insert the character or memorize a keyboard shortcut like Alt+0151.

that’s the breath of somewhat-unpredicted fresh air i was hoping to breathe

edit- i should add that i don’t mean “predicted” in the llm sense.

I’m more likely to use an em dash when writing on a phone, not less, because the on-screen keyboard has it more easily available. It’s when I’m using a physical keyboard writing on desktop that I’m more likely to use two hyphens.

That’s an en-dash, not an em-dash which is slightly longer: —

Yeah I use them a ton