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Human em dash users, are you still afraid of being mislabeled as "AI"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by lemuria@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Why em dashes specifically? Why is THAT what we blame on AI?

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[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

The character was created specifically because when we write we use different length dashes to mean different things—subtraction through to a pause for thinking.

The automated test will have no difficulty telling them apart. Are you saying it’s hard looking at the results of this tests? You might need to use a font that makes that easy (I agree many monospaced fonts don’t, but that’s not the character’s fault. Or include a step that replaces en with 2 hyphens and em with 3.