MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by ghaff on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:57PM (#49468718)

I am not an LLM and use em-dashes and they were house style in my last 20+ years of employment. The whole em dashes == AI thing needs to just stop.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by phasefactor on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:43PM (#49470182)

It is more about the document containing more than sixty of them. They are a completely legitimate piece of punctuation, but even prolific pre-LLM users did not tend to go that wild with them.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by ghaff on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:26PM (#49470727)

I did not notice anything about the document in that regard that was worthy of note.

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by peri-cl on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:31AM (#49475066)

Speaking about style choices, I was curious why you sometimes use the 'f' from the Latin Extended-B block, U+0192, in your comments. I've never seen that before! (I'd meant to ignore it but you seem to be soliciting typography discussions...)

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Re:MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, a... by ghaff on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:48AM (#49479354)

Probably a fat finger of some sort or it came through a copy and paste. Nothing I do deliberately.

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