You know, I've been doing emdash and "not A but B" for a long ass time. The fucking bot got it from me, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give it up without a fight.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really upsetting. Some of the most genuinely intelligent and insightful people I know have talked exactly like that (many still do), and I know they're people because a) I've met some of them, and b) they were doing this before generative AI was a thing. Generative AI stole the natural styles and voices of our best and brightest and is wearing them like a fucking Edgar suit. It's sick.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I doubt it. For example you both just decided to write normal language.

If ChatGPT wrote it, it'd be: [Affirmation], it is not AI who invented it, but humans have been using it all the time before AI, blablabla, em-dash, blablabla. It is not a reliable signal em-dash it is a common rhetorical pattern, blablabla.

I think though it is used by humans, it's not really used the same way. And not in every goddamn post 😅 And then both of you used contractions, you were both able to make a concise point in one paragraph... All things cheap AI doesn't do.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 3 days ago

After all these years, I still don't get em-dashes. They seem like just a worse amalgamation of commas, semicolons, and brackets that lazy journalists use to avoid having to learn grammar.