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|| She || || Her || || Zero braincells || || Asks and submissions are open to vent like if you wanna scream into the void or something, I'm all ears ||

[satan-says-sike]

Sick of V stepping into the crowd.

[transgenderwaterrat]

anyway hoping that the generative AI bubble pops so disastrously that the tech industry becomes allergic to anything involving it for the next 1,000 years

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[loveridden1999]

[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a fly that had to save a rebellion goup of humans (my irl classmates from when I was in school) from a dictatorship of human-eating birds who were aware of my flyish presence. 

[satan-says-sike]

Isn't that one bollywood movie?

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[20-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

Holiday

[vintxgemiseries]

in the rome straight up “stabbing it” and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. my caesar

[pangur-and-grim]

I got too excited while playing chess and told my opponent that I was going to slit his throat and slaughter him like a hog. something to work on for next time

[pangur-and-grim]

in retrospect, this actually got me laid so maybe take notes

[bebx]

[satan-says-sike]

Me, proofreading my friends' pieces.

[satan-says-sike]

What do you call someone who is like an arrogant pair of balls?

Egotesticle

[satan-says-sike]

The double homicide of winter exams—too stressed to smile and too chapped to even fkn try.

[memeuplift]

[satan-says-sike]

If this ain't me in the bedroom.

[satan-says-sike]

Look what we have here, the quences of my own conses.

[satan-says-sike]

My pp so big every sex I have is called the big bang.