A post by ARBco on Mythryl

An editor beat em-dashes into me a half-decade ago. They're not used a lot in everyday, layperson writing but they're normal for professional writers. AIs using them isn't just a weird quirk, it's evidence of the stolen slurry that fuels their sloppy syntax.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

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