it’s been a rough year for a lot of reasons but em dashes becoming a chatgpt thing is going to be the end of me
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alicia 🍳
stop using chatgpt. i can also use em dashes and lie to you
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I think it's because ChatGTP is trained on professional writing where em dashes are much more common place.
Nope!
But maybe that muddies the intention.
Visually, I can't argue with your presentation.
come and take em
‒ figure dash
– en dash
— em dash
﹍ dashed low line
﹉ dashed overline
⇢ rightwards dashed arrow
┊ quadruple dash vertical
🚪 door dash
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People are just pointing out the average person doesn't use em dashes a lot—mainly because they don't know how to use them properly—but ChatGTP tends to use them far too often so it's an easy way to clock that something was written by AI.