People who think using em dashes is proof of AI writing have clearly never written anything longer than a paragraph in their life 😭
Keep the beloved em dashes out of your accusations! Real writers who hate AI definitely know how to use em dashes. Leave us alone 🙈
Keep the beloved em dashes out of your accusations! Real writers who hate AI definitely know how to use em dashes. Leave us alone 🙈
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ITS TRAINED OFF THE WORK OF REAL HUMAN WRITERS
THATS WHY IT USES EM DASHES
I have yet to see an AI use an interrobang. 😜
On Mac, you can't keystroke an interrobang (unlike hard curly quotes, accents, and © ™ ¢ ¶). Why would I use an annoying mark when I can get ?! (or !?) with three key touches?
*yes, it's a back-formation, but I like it better than "makes [thing] ambiguous"
?! is much more common, because usually an interrobang is on a question, to express that the question is being asked in a tone of shock with undertones of anger or amazement.
1/3
MIC DROP!
(beat)
(sneaks back in to politely pick up microphone and set back in its stand)
I do think that perhaps writing for the ear, like a sermon or a speech, might pull you toward more use, but...
Plus it's a way for idiots to sound clever, a contemporary version of "I can tell by the pixels."
(Double hyphens have been the standard in comic book lettering for decades.)
AI: I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU