No one ever typed with the Em Dash until chat GPT. Now I see it everywhere and its a dead giveaway to your use.
Throwing your text into AI algorithms is dope until it starts to streamline all of our creative processes. Be original Be Authentic.
Tell your ChatGPT bot to stop using em dashes (it'll never learn)
Funny enough, I'm one of the few people I know who actually does use them. Typically for a mid sentence explainer or thought.
HA! FOUND THE ROBOT 🤖 🚨
The prevalence is excavating massively and I just assume that anyone using them put their thoughts through ChatGPT first because no matter how many times you tell it not to use them, it does.
In fairness, I use them because they are better sometimes. AI may be realizing that. I don't think using it as an editor removes creativity. My 'offline' writing has improved.
The prompt boys are a different topic.
Same 😅
What's an "Em Dash"?
—
Is that different than a normal dash (which can also be depicted by two hyphens)?
Yes —
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
I write a lot in LibreOffice Writer. It can convert two dashes to em using :--: . It'll autocorrect to em.
:---:
That's an Underscore.
You are right, I actually started using them around the time ChatGPT came about, not because of it directly but perhaps by seeing it more often.
One other critical thing is that I wrote my thesis around that time so I knew to add it as a keyboard shortcut, which makes it more convenient and hence I now use it more often.
