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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they're a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

    In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Yea, if it would have been only the em dashes, I would not have shared it but it was also committed by Claude which heightens the possibility of the text also being generated I think.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    They're definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that's in large part because people aren't generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

    Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

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