Re:"My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."
by efitz on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:58AM
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I definitely got a strong vibe of “engineered to be viral”; I didn’t consider that it might be AI. I don’t dispute that. But I want to raise one point:
Em dash does NOT mean “AI”. Em dash is trivial to generate in most word processors- type a word, then a hyphen, then type another word. Microsoft Word and Google Docs both convert the hyphen to an em dash. I have intentionally done this for years. I also try to lead each paragraph with my point of the paragraph; that’s from outlining.
3 bullets, more than once: it’s an AI. Same emotional hook at the end of each paragraph, yep.
Em dash does NOT mean “AI”. Em dash is trivial to generate in most word processors- type a word, then a hyphen, then type another word. Microsoft Word and Google Docs both convert the hyphen to an em dash. I have intentionally done this for years. I also try to lead each paragraph with my point of the paragraph; that’s from outlining.
3 bullets, more than once: it’s an AI. Same emotional hook at the end of each paragraph, yep.
But just seeing an em dash does not mean it’s AI.