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Should you replace a well-used em-dash with a comma so suspicious readers won’t mistakenly flag the text as AI-generated?
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I feel like I need to put a disclaimer on my stories that no part of them are produced by generative AI.
Those bastards won't take the em-dash from me, AI be damned.
as an avid em-dash enjoyer, i am distraught that it is now associated with AI writing.
DO YOU KNOW THE COMPUTER SHORTCUT FOR AN EM-DASH??
HUH?? HUH??? DO YOU????
NO. NO YOU FUCKING DON'T SO DON'T EVEN COME AT ME WITH YOUR AI-GENERATED ESSAY WITH SIXTY-FUCKING-FIVE EM-DASHES
*SCREAMS IN ESSAY WRITING TUTOR AND AO3 WRITER*
(btw it's three hyphens in a row in google docs, two in a row in microsoft word, and option+shift+hyphen everywhere else)
F—U—C—K——G—E—N—E—R—A—T—I—V—E——A—I
em-dash my beloved
The whole em-dash with ai thing reminds me of when in my high school french class my teacher downed my grade because I actually used the accent marks on words. Her reason was "you can't do that on an english keyboard so it must've been using google translate". (Turns out no- You can type diacritics on an english keyboard) So I had to start literally just typing things wrong so that my teacher didn't think it was copy pasted from google translate.
To all the writers who have gone out of their way to include em-dashes to make your work more unique with added flair, only to be assumed that it was a soulless copy paste job; I feel you. Your works are amazing and people shouldn't automatically flag any instances of a grammar point as an automatic failure.
I don't really use the em dash, I do use a lot of smaller dashes in my sentences (these ones - as opposed to these ones — ) but I'm already dreading the thought that someone will claim I'm AI just for having dashes in any of my sentences. I love adding dashes to my sentences cause it makes the timing of my words feel more how I actually speak- blurting things out before I've finished saying the last sentence, quick and sharp like. I've tried cutting the dashes out of my speech and it always feels so much less like me speaking- I imagine em-dashers are probably feeling strange having to remove an entire punctuation peice from their vocab...
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I commonly use em-dashes in formal writing — school, work, etc. — and have for years. Apparently, the use of the em-dash has become a signal for some folks — mostly Gen Z'ers — of the use of AI.
Too many kids let a robot write their shit, and now they can't imagine that real humans use this perfectly normal form of punctuation.
(And if this is the first time you're noticing me use them, that makes sense. I don't normally use them on Tumblr or any other form of social media, except maybe LinkedIn. This time was on purpose.)
Also... this isn't a (total) anti-AI rant. I find it useful in small doses; usually to organize my own thoughts. But damn, we're becoming so stupid and lazy.
Honestly, shoutout to the en-dash; the poor thing is always overshadowed by the glorious em-dash, but it’s an honest, hard worker, and it deserves better
Yeah, yeah, commas are great, but have you considered em-dashes???
Because they are just—so—AMAZING.
