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It's not that it isn't automatically an indicator of AI generation, rather — it is used frequently by AI in a way that doesn't follow the natural flow of human conversation.

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real writers use the hyphen - like this - instead because they can't be bothered to type an actual em dash and they've long since disabled any form of auto correct on any program they type into.

The anti-ai hysteria on the site is getting a little silly, and I'm by no means an ai advocate.

My autistic ass taking notes on how not to sound like AI when I write shit.

it'd be a funny bit if op used ai to write this

as a frequent user of the em dash I find this whole AI tell thing distressing

Funny how it used to be a shibboleth for lawyers and now it's a tell for AI. Em dashes are very useful punctuation marks though — being able to chain sentences together for longer than intended is very helpful for writing without thinking — what I do — or just being generally chaotic in writing.

Fun fact, the em dash is also the standard punctuation for dialogues in books written in Portuguese, like:

"How are you?"

"Not very well," she answered.

— Como você está?

— Não muito bem — respondeu ela.

Alt 0151. I use it often and have instructed students on the difference between a semicolon, a period, and an em dash and when it's best to use each of them. It helps me write how I speak. I guess eventually someone's going to accuse me of using ChatGPT because of my em dashes and idk, they can kiss my ass?

Finally ⸻ the 3-em dash will have its moment

Em persecution has to end

This sounds like something an AI would write

I don't care - stop using long dashes. It's a useless character and the less you use it the easier it is to discern AI slop without even having to think. It'll only be a year or two before ChatGPT stops using it, so don't undermine a very cool and assuredly temporary useful discernment tool.

A normal length dash does everything you want. You know why nobody knows em-dash existed before? Because nobody ever noticed you using it and everyone reads it as a normal dash.

You can have your em-dash back in a couple years.

also conspicuously hidden hands in an image doesn't mean it's ai generated
hands are hard to draw ;_;

Making people scared to type like they normally do to own the AI.

In high school, an English teacher once told us she over used em dashes and her teacher told her you can't just dash through your papers. I tried to avoid their over use after that, which made me learn the other ways to organize my (chaotic) thoughts.

Needless to say, I think that it's a tell of young writers more than AI. The overuse is because the author isn't comfortable with using colons, parenthesis, or commas - the things that the em dash can substitute for grammatically.

A good writer understands offsetting with a dash adds more emphasis than commas (neutral) or parenthesis (lower emphasis). Overuse is a sign of either immaturity or AI. Since there's a lot of immature writers on the internet (and have been since the eternal summer began), it really isn't useful as a tell online.

I use those a lot—though without spaces. The spaces give it away .