I use em dashes all the time. How dare you call me a robot, filthy meatsack?
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I use them fairly often—am I a bot? https://lemmy.ml/search?creatorId=1468481&q=%E2%80%94
I was going to say, Mac and iOS make it pretty easy to get to and it looks better than a regular dash in context. Then again, I’m one of the few people that I know that only writes in full punctuation at all times.
They're also easy to enter with a compose key which should be part of any normal Unix-ish desktop setup.
With default settings, libreoffice will autocorrect hyphens to em dashes in some cases
This is so stupid. I have my AI server up right now in another tab and setup for creative writing. I currently have these tokens banned: 3221, 265, 28845, 382, 650, 28716, 16913, 1101
Those tokens correspond to specific word fragments and punctuation. Most are due to some sentence starting patterns I don't like. I can ban any tokens and the model will not use them. All models have this functionality in the API for any user that actually knows what they are doing at a basic elementary level. Like the tokens for - – — are 28773, 764, and 1040, for my mixtral model.
I use them all the time.
It's not proof but it's a red flag. However, I assume that everyone who uses AI to assist with their writing, such as myself, probably edits them out for this very reason.