Honestly, should I stop using em dashes? Or at least stop using them in academic settings? I really don't want to have to deal with the "I wanted to see you after lecture because your essay sounds like it was written by AI" talk. I never use LLMs, and I've been using em dashes since long before ChatGPT was released, but I keep hearing people talking about identifying AI writing because of em dash use. I suppose it doesn't help that most of my serious writing sounds incredibly academic—much like I imagine an LLM would talk. But no, I'm not using AI to write; I'm just autistic.
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Good and bad. Just like having language standards.
Bad - it's already been said why.
Good - because uniformity does help understanding each other, and because conversational interfaces are more efficient and less error-prone with less diversity.
So much confusion could be avoided if people didn't use the same words to mean different things.
Well, say, in VAEs confusion is one of the reasons it even works. I mean, it's the mathematical confusion and not what we mean in language, but there might be a parallel.
Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation 👍
so is social media [citation needed]
