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Re:ai;dr by abustamam on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:32PM (#46997843)
I'm not confident that the average person is aware of an em dash nor that it is widely associated with AI; I think the current culturally dominant meaning is just a fat hyphen (which most people just call a dash anyway).
Re:ai;dr by AlecSchueler on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:59AM (#47000950)
My wife was working from home recently and I overheard a meeting she was having. It's a very non technical field. She and her team were working on a presentation and her boss said "let's use one of those little AI dashes here."
Re:ai;dr by abustamam on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:33AM (#47001982)
I find that amusing but I know somewhere an English major is crying.