Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.
There are dozens of us.
Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…
you might like these
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
(a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz.
(b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.
not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.
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There are dozens of us.
Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…
you might like these
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
(a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz.
(b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.
not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.
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no u