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Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by tinier_subsets on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:38PM (#44790502)
I never fully believed the “em-dashes are an AI giveaway” meme — until I saw that front page.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by eszed on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:55PM (#44790674)
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.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by nxobject on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:06PM (#44790788)
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.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by ziml77 on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:56PM (#44791243)
Keep using them. Don't let AI steal beautiful em-dashes away from you.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by ascorbic on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:52PM (#44790647)
LLMs don't put spaces around their em-dashes.
Re:Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids by beAbU on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:20AM (#44799166)
I had to take a look for myself and damn... It's almost as if this was done intentionally to be ironic or something.