Human writers have always used the em dash

Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by raincole on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:59AM (#45249140)

The ship has sailed, unfortunately. Obviously humans use em-dash too. But more and more people's first reaction to em-dash would be "haha got you, AI!"

Imaging you're an artist designing a character with 6 fingers today.

The situation is really sad. People who have the proper skills have to change how they work just to avoid "witch hunting" (for the lack of better term). What's next? If GPT-5.5 uses a lot of ellipses, are we going to stop using them? Semicolon? Will humans be using the most watered-down subset of English only at some point?

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by iamdamian on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:17PM (#45253809)

I’m not really sure why we need to give in? Just keep writing high quality content that obviously wasn’t AI-generated, and keep using em dashes.

At least, that’s what I’m doing.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by malux85 on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:10PM (#45254965)

There is a virtuous element to resisting and holding strong on a position, but there’s a wisdom element to know that enormous tidal movements cannot be influenced by a few tiny data points and at some point you’re just harming yourself and nothing more.

The key part is having the good judgement and maturity to see when that point is.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by iamdamian on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:51PM (#45255394)

I can’t disagree with that. There’s also wisdom in realizing that we are the tide.

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by malux85 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:06AM (#45258212)

Yes, a handful of drops

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by tpoacher on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:33AM (#45277097)

"Every drop makes the ocean" ~ old proverb

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by malux85 on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:17PM (#45307389)

Nobody is disputing that

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Re:Human writers have always used the em dash by NoPie on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:59AM (#45260199)

If m-dashes becomes a turn off, GPT users will simply replace them with hyphens and using m-dashes will become a sign of real professionalism or alternatively a sing of completely clueless.

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