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Why would you run your text through an AI checker, ever? Why would you care what an AI checker has to say about anything you wrote...
Feb 8, 2026
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After thinking about that, my mind shut down. I don't know what to say about that at all. I guess I could say since it still exists...
Feb 8, 2026
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The funniest part is plugging my handwritten text into one of these AIs, and it says, "let us humanize this text." The absurdity of this...
Feb 8, 2026
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The second essential problem with emdashes, as someone above correctly relates, is that GPT uses them in mimicry of text it trains on...
Feb 8, 2026
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I am reclaiming em-dashes. Even without them, I got 92% AI generated on one chapter, and the next was 73%. Using another checker gave me...
Feb 8, 2026
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No! Tolkien used AI!? :sweating_profusely: he WAS ahead of his time...
Feb 8, 2026
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True! AI is just copying everything that humans are feeding it.
Feb 8, 2026
HarryGarland
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Yep! If we didn't, we'd be no different than AI generating countless copies like an industrial production line. :sweat_smile:
Feb 8, 2026
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You are correct ✅ Em-dash usages aren't signs of AI-usage—Em-dash usages are signs of my superior writing skills.
Feb 8, 2026
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So far I can only distinguish ChatGPT generated stories. CGPT tends to use short, punchy sentences with repetitions. Oh yeah, I totally...
Feb 8, 2026
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"The Hobbit" has a lot of em-dashes. So, if people think that any writing containing em-dashes is written by AI, then it's just sad.
Feb 8, 2026
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I believe there are three different types of dashes? One is the regular "-" dash and then we have "—" emdash and finally the "–"...
Feb 8, 2026
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I use them for certain things, but others times I ignore the suggestions Eighty-three. Sure why not Good-looking. Why Grammarly...
Feb 8, 2026
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I refuse to let "AI" change how I write. Besides, "AI" only uses them a lot because writers use them a lot. That's very much how it works.
Feb 8, 2026
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What do you think of em dashes in a novel's text? Personally, I find em dashes quite stylistic. It adds variety to the punctuations we...
Feb 8, 2026
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