[sandcat_]

I used iOS to write my comment. It adds curved apostrophes automatically. macOS does too.

The em-dash was me — you can long press on the dash button and you get the choice.

Also, next time? Maybe consider that you might be wrong, and you’re responding to an actual human. Who spent half an hour or so writing a comment to share what they thought was an interesting anecdote. And who is now feeling a bit rubbish.

[einsteinx2]

> The em-dash was me — you can long press on the dash button and you get the choice.

Also iOS and macOS will “autocorrect” two regular dashes into an em-dash. I use them all the time that way. I really hate this new trend of using that as a “gotcha” for calling out AI stuff, it’s really stupid.

[pyman]

I think you may have misunderstood my point. I was calling out a possible conspiracy theory.

Going back to your comment about AI, teachers have seen a huge increase in the use of em dashes over the past year, so they have been forced to become computer language forensics experts (unfortunately).

Just to clarify, I'm not against AI or people using it, I'm against conspiracy theories.