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I don't care - stop using long dashes. It's a useless character and the less you use it the easier it is to discern AI slop without even having to think. It'll only be a year or two before ChatGPT stops using it, so don't undermine a very cool and assuredly temporary useful discernment tool.
A normal length dash does everything you want. You know why nobody knows em-dash existed before? Because nobody ever noticed you using it and everyone reads it as a normal dash.
You can have your em-dash back in a couple years.
W—R—O—N—G
I like these normal length dashes you used
Hyphens read completely differently IMO
When I see the short dash like in your text it doesn't read as a long pause to me but almost like you're combining care-stop, it doesn't have the same effect as –. I've seen them used in articles plenty before the rise of GPT text. I'm not sure it is necessarily a reliable tell for AI.
Not sure if you’re trolling, but that is an en dash, the middle child of the dashes. Used specifically for indicating ranges. E.g. year 1900–1902, numbers 0–9. The meaning is different from the slightly longer em dash
Ah thanks, I'm on mobile, I wasn't sure which was the —em— on my keyboard, I don't use any of these highfalutin text lines normally
It's really not. The emdash also auto changes in word if you use a - then type something.
Since I've started writing in markdown I have to do double-- to auto complete into emdash, but in word it's coded in AFAIK
I see it used in books pretty often, presumably because the text editors used for those have autocorrects for special characters like that and the ellipses character.
I was taught all the dashes in school along with all the other punctuation. Didn’t realize this was arcane knowledge. I also see them in books and other edited literature all the time. It is not obscure at all
I need an excuse to use my compose key