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by plainOldText 313 days ago
We used to infer one’s mind from their writing. Nowadays?

I’m surprised people are too lazy to even remove them dashes. Well, in fact it might actually be a good thing for one can spot when something was AI generated much easier.

I feel like original writing is pretty much dead these days. We’re all best selling authors now.

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I've been (over) using em-dashes ever since I discovered them. I have no intention of changing.

Curiously, I find in editing my dad's auto-biography that a certain generation went crazy over-inserting commas — wherever they think you might want to pause to take a breath or something. To my eye (ear?) the result is a staccato sentence.

But the truth is I know nothing about grammar rules — I slept through sentence diagramming in elementary school.

This reads like original writing to me. Too creative for LLMs, at least based on my experience.
I used em-dashes before ChatGPT became a thing, I will keep using them.