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Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec... by lelanthran on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:50PM (#47548077)
> I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography.

Who said anything about em-dashes? There's an entire Wikipedia page documenting the tells, and only one of the 15 or so items is "extended usage of em-dashes".

It's not fluff, it's actual tells.

No nonsense, no BS, just tells.

The key insight is...

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Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec... by xigoi on Friday March 27, 2026 @04:53PM (#47548125)
I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.
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Re:Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrec... by lelanthran on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:16PM (#47548372)
> I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.

Yeah, but you haven't seen me do that :-)

(You also haven't seen anyone on HN recently (since this year) do that either).

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