#em-dashes — Public Fediverse posts

🐢💤 A groundbreaking revelation: to appear productive, perfect the art of AI-generated emails with unnecessary em dashes. 🤖✍️ Tune into the riveting saga of people who discovered that their colleagues are actually brilliant automatons. 😊👌 Because why actually work when you can just baffle everyone with punctuation? 🤯📧
https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ #AIemails #Productivity #Hacks #EmDashes #WorkplaceHumor #Automation #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Wow, groundbreaking discovery: new Hacker News accounts sprinkle EM-dashes like #confetti at a wedding 🎉. Apparently, it's the new Turing test — because nothing screams human authenticity like excessive punctuation. 🤖✨
https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/ #groundbreakingdiscovery #EMdashes #TuringTest #humanauthenticity #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/

#HackerNews #NewAccounts #HN #EMdashes #AITrends #HackerNews #WritingStyle

So as someone who used em dashes before AI – how do we take them back?

#AI #aislop #emdash #emdashes

TechCrunch: OpenAI says it’s fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem. “OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, ad copy, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/techcrunch-openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/

I was amused and a tad peeved when it was revealed the ChatGPT was being caught out by its excessive use of #emDashes—I like using them, myself—but now apparently OpenAI says users can tell the app not to use them. OpenAI still doesn’t know why it overuses them though. They’re still looking into that.

#OpenAI has addressed the issue of #ChatGPT’s excessive use of #emdashes. Users can now instruct the chatbot to avoid using em dashes in their custom instructions, providing more control over the punctuation’s frequency. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

I'm seeing lots of writers confirming they use em dashes for today's #WritersCoffeeClub
First - YAY! Fellow em dash lovers!
Second - People really need to diversify their reading if so many of us confirm that we use them, only for people to use em dashes as a sign it was written with AI.

Also, are people forgetting that AI is trained on real people's writing—if AI uses em dashes, it's because real writers use them, not the other way round.

#WritingCommunity #EmDashes #AISlop

@immarisabel As a fellow em-dasher—you betcha I em—seeing your blog delighted me, having been told mere weeks ago by a fellow author that it was a hallmark of AI writing and it is being used less, which left me sad. I use it extensively in my fiction as I never shy away from a long continuing thought sentence when it's the write way to say what I mean. The author said they were soldiering on, and well they should; so should we. Good writing—even with em-dashes—differentiates itself from mediocre averaging-the-mean AI drivel. The thing about AI is that it pattern matches—it discovers trends because it is incapable of reasoning, meaning its use of the em is because people commonly write using it! Maybe what's popular are em parentheticals, or the em abrupt end—? Of course AI uses the word Is a lot. Maybe we should stop using that?

I even use the em-dash for signature lines.

—R.S.

Again, thanks. I boosted your post to my followers.

#BoostingIsSharing

#emdashes #emdash #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writer #author

Don't stop doing something which brings you joy just because AI is doing it...

https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/Re:_Bye_bye,_em_dash

#blogging #emdashes #ai #writing #blog #writers #indieweb

😴 Software engineer debates the existential crisis of—wait for it—missing em dashes. Because clearly, the punctuation apocalypse is upon us, and who needs scalable cloud applications when your prose lacks dramatic flair? 📉
https://bassi.li/articles/i-miss-using-em-dashes #SoftwareEngineer #PunctuationCrisis #EmDashes #DramaticFlair #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Learn the tells of AI writing: em dashes, rule of three, bullet points, and more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=0lmGvlbBoFNyCoHG&v=9Ch4a6ffPZY&feature=youtu.be

#AIwriting #GenerativeAI #WritingStyle #LLMs #AIwritingStyle #Shibboleths #RuleOfThree #EmDashes

Working on a sort of (very very) simple #SolarSystem #Civ type game. Just in #linux #terminal for now, because much easier for me. Learning a lot about #python and the importance of indentation.

Makes me want to create a #programming language that uses #EmDashes, #EnDashes, and #hyphens. Just because.

- function
– blah
— blah blah

Planets revolve around the sun, ships travel between planets. basic resource use and collection.

Full disclosure: #Google #Gemini is tutoring me.

This piece makes the good point that "suspicion of the em dash also speaks to our mounting paranoia over automated communication" — we know there are people passing off AI crap as their own writing, and we want to be able to spot it. But the em dash "cannot be a reliable metric of AI reliance for the simple reason that it is a case of the software mimicking *human* writing patterns."

h/t @raganwald

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-hypen-em-dash-ai-writing-1235314945/

#writing #grammar #EmDash #EmDashes #AI #AICrap

I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.

#AI #AICrap #EmDashes #typography #writing #FuckAI

How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

#HackerNews #EmDashes #EnDashes #Hyphens #Grammar #WritingTips #Language