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I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page.


I'm really sad about this, because I'm a word (and punctuation) nerd and use em-dashes in my own writing, because they're correct, dagnabit. Now I'm reconsidering the practice.


This may cause some psychic damage, but I use en dashes instead for this reason... even though yes, it's only conventionally used for numeric ranges.


Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you.


LLMs don't put spaces around their em-dashes.


I had to take a look for myself and damn... It's almost as if this was done intentionally to be ironic or something.




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