wait, why isn't this a thing tho?

🦘 yes

Now you can't write without using em-dashes or you'll be called a bot.

Same. Same.

There are two types of dashes. One is the "n-dash" (or "en-dash"), which takes up one space, and is most often used to hyphenate words; and the other is the "m-dash" (or "em-dash) which takes up two spaces, and is most often used to bracket off parenthetical information within a sentence, like kind of a lighter weight parentheses. Em-dashes get used a lot in novels and other published writing that is subject to correction from a professional copy editor, but very rarely in the daily typing of regular people. So now when people see it getting used they just assume it must be a clanker.

You should be able to figure it out—even if you don't know what you're looking for—if you're sent the proper response ;)

What is a search engine?

It's the tell that someone used an LLM to write the response.

I literally see it everywhere in my companies' documentation

I just made a CI pass to forbid non ASCII characters in the code. Found a lot of em dashes :(

In the logs???

Our leadership made using and excelling at Copilot as one of our Key Results for upskilling, I make it point to make my code look as botty as possible to show how serious I'm about achieving the target 🎯

Totally not a bubble! Just a few thousand more data centers!

I heard Altman wants a trillion $ bailout

Dude, Ive been writing for a couple of years now. And I use em dashes, probably because all the authors I like use them. As soon as this AI thing started doing it, everything Ive ever written turned into AI slop over night lol.

I wouldn't say never, but certainly not this century. Probably not the next one, either.

And at this point we might as well refer to it as something like "Machine Consciousness", because "AI" an any derivatives of it have been rendered garbage for actually talking about the sci-fi concept.