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by yetanotherjosh
15 days ago
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I experience this too, but the danger is is making assumptions based on "tells" which might just be how the user wrote the post. It's a situation now where if someone authentically writes something, but happens to rub up against some arbitrary "tell," they flip a bit in the reader and get their work rejected. For example, I used em dashes fairly regularly in my writing before AI started convincing everyone that the mere presence of an em dash is the AI tell, so I actually stopped using them, just to avoid this backlash. |
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“Are you AI-ing me? Em dash giving you away”
It’s a pretty load-bearing (lol) example, yet it was clear in context it wasn’t serious. I’m beginning to notice people getting pretty good at detecting AI content, which I find reassuring.
It makes sense: AI-written prose is basically the homogenization of all styles of writing into a single voice, so it’ll stand out against the unique personalities we are used to seeing. It is just taking a minute for the average person to gain literacy — but it seems to be happening rather quickly, again unsurprising since we’re such social monkeys with a lot of our 15 watt brains dedicated to socialization and identity recognition.
Use your em-dash proudly!