Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion

Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by mikestorrent on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:23PM (#44869007)

Very much so! I used to write responses online in the classic GPT formula with lots of bullets etc. and now I am deliberately ensuring that I don't over-formalize grammar so as to provide people with a little bit of confidence that I'm real... for what it's worth.

I used to spend a lot of time arguing online. Now, with Dead Internet Theory, it feels like it's just hammering home how useless that all was.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by al_borland on Monday August 11, 2025 @08:13PM (#44870926)

While I fully understand not wanting to argue things online when the dead internet theory has seemed to come true, I don’t think we should dumb ourselves down for it.

I also don’t think that will help. I saw an Odd Man Out video where humans and an AI were put into a box and they had to try and figure out who was the AI. If I remember correctly, the AI said it was purposely making some mistakes to better emulate a human.

We should seek to be better where AI falls, rather than sink to a level beneath AI and assume its superiority.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by 7jjjjjjj on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:30PM (#44869106)

All those people on Reddit who never found "Shift" or "Enter" on their keyboard are laughing at us now.

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