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Don't paste the AI. (dontpastetheai.com)
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[โ€“] vogi@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yea, if it would have been only the em dashes, I would not have shared it but it was also committed by Claude which I heightens the possibility of the text also being generated I think.

[โ€“] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They're definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that's in large part because people aren't generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.