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[โ€“] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just checking because of the emdash ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] Aedis@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude... alt-gr+dash, or cmd+dash or alt+dash depending on your flavor of OS/keyboard layout. The whole em-dash = ai is so annoying to me cause I've been using em-dashes way before LLMs came to spoil the fun.

[โ€“] Caesium@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

forreal, it's one of my favorite ways to break up a sentence. it's also stupid to accuse of Ai for one piece of grammar, when there's typically multiple tells to pay attention to when it comes to Ai.

let's not forget that llms were originally trained on human-made text too. we are the ones who made the patterns first. llms simply regurgitate it

[โ€“] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That's why I ask! I respect that real people use it. It's a valid punctuation

Or on the X Window System: โ‡ง Shift+AltGr (aka. multi key), then - - .

[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Back before llms poisoned it (and I still used Windows), I had the alt code for em dash memorized (prob still have the muscle memory to do it, but not currently at a numpad) because I really liked using them in papers I had to write for school. I read lots of books back then, and recognized how much I preferred using em dashes to commas in specific cases.

I hate that I can't use them anymore lest I be mistaken for someone who uses llms

[โ€“] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m on an iPhone, which autocorrects two dashes (- -) to an emdash.

[โ€“] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My bad! I learned something today