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by briandoyle81 373 days ago
Because skilled writers have started using in place of semi-colons and parentheses in modern writing - it just feels right!

AI models are trained off the work of these writers, so they use them now. Except that the difference is that a writer will just use the - next to the `0` key, expecting that Word, Google Docs, or whatever is turning their markdown into rendered text will automatically turn it from - to an em dash, which is a different character.

The models are then provided that rendered or autocorrected text, and return text with the em dash, instead of the one we type.

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Ah now it make sense. Blame the autocorrect then. I always wondered, how people type these em dashes when you dont have a key on the keyboard!
I just use two dashes -- like this.
MacOS: Option + Shift + -

iOS/iPadOS: long-press -

Windows: Alt + 0151 on the NumPad