More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

https://www.wired.com/story/more-typos-fewer-em-dashes-writers-are-creating-an-anti-ai-literary-counterculture

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chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (6 replies)

Man, fuck that. Em dashes are cool and I'm not giving them up just cause some fucking toaster uses it.

blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

A -- greed

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (4 replies)

the thing is that toasters don't do em dashes. it's just enemy propaganda.

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d (3 replies)

... what? No, they very much do. What are you talking about?

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (2 replies)

my toaster can barely make a toast without overdoing it. em dashes are way above its capabilities.

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Ah! Cylon toaster, not toaster toaster. And certainly not a Cylon toaster toaster

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Cylon toasters are underrated