Generative AI’s Post

Dash by default gets autocorrected to EM dash in word and libre office writer, so there it doesn’t say anything about AI. On a phone, in text messages, this isn’t autocorrected and it’s widely accepted to use a normal dash - so an EM dash can look suspicious… It’s however very easy to do manually on a phone, too — if you’re pedantic…

I’ve never liked unspaced em dashes, and always thought of it as common in US English writing. It makes sense then that AI models, trained largely on US-generated content, uses them a lot. Chat GPT and other models do not seem to have noticed the spaced en dash (I whisper) so I continue to use them as I always have.

The em dash walked so ChatGPT could—apparently—ruin it. Next thing we know, ellipses getting canceled for sounding too dramatic... Honestly, at this point I’m just one semicolon away from an existential crisis. 😅

O...M...just nothing. It's great. Seriously.

Long live the em dash!! Said it before and I'll say it again Yes my content is AI generated but only after I've suggested ideas, read the responses, exchanged more ideas and thoughts and worked through what the final version could be and is... It's AI generated but only after a period of time working through the options and outcomes with my trained model.

So..it's been all the years that my content was not mine rather from AI!!! Surprising!!!

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16729554

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert. - Dune. 1965. - Nineteen. Sixty. Five. “As AI applications such as ChatGPT become a household norm—with 55 percent of Americans reporting regular AI use—recent studies found it is resulting in impaired critical thinking skills, dependency, loss of decision-making, and laziness.” - Group of professors. - Last week. - Frank nailed it. “Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” – Dr. McCoy (yes, Star Trek’s own) In a chilling episode in which artificial intelligence seemingly turned on its human master, Google's Gemini AI chatbot coldly and emphatically told a Michigan college student that he is a "waste of time and resources" before instructing him to "please die."  Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) is coming—and that it could pose an existential threat to humanity. … When the system can self improve, we need to seriously think about unplugging it,” Schmidt said.

One professor I had when I was in grad school at Penn State (English) spent a large part of one class criticizing the overuse of the em dash. His clear recommendation was to learn to use the semicolon effectively. And often, that is the right choice; but use a semicolon, and you will be told your writing is "confusing." So what's a writer to do? Personally, I refuse to stop using em dashes (or semicolons, or parenthesis, or any other rhetorical tools available), because writing is an art, and I think we should just use the best tool available to deliver every nuance and detail of our thoughts.

Shouldn't it be surrounded by spaces? Then it would be ok.