[madaxe_again]

My writing used to be littered with them, but I now eschew the em in favour of en, as it has become too strong an anti-shibboleth.

I have also taken to being sloppier in my prose, as I’ve had stories rejected for being “written by AI” - when they’re shorts I wrote more than a decade ago. Reworked them to sound like a moron, accepted. Sigh.

[Hendrikto]

> I now eschew the em in favour of en

They have different meaning and are not interchangeable.

[spider-mario]

For the use discussed here, they basically are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash

[madaxe_again]

Fully aware - although now the broader meaning of the em dash has become “I am an LLM”.

[AStrangeMorrow]

I have a similar issue. I tend to have a very “structured” type of writing. Say on slack or Reddit for example. Using markdown formatting. Lists with bulletpoints etc. And I tend to write long detailed explanations, sometimes too long if I am being honest.

But now I find myself adding noise and imperfections to my writing (not that it was perfect) to make it more human, which is kinda silly.

[jimbokun]

The LLMs decided to use you as the model for the pinnacle of human communication style.