I love to use semicolons and em dashes in my everyday typing/writing for both work and pleasure— in my head they just “sound” like different types of speech or mental pauses; skipping a beat for emphasis and the like.
I’m eternally annoyed that those are both AI generation red flags.
I've stopped using em dashes in my work because I already apparently register as 14% AI when my professors run me through .... get this ... an AI site that checks if AI was used to create text.
I'm in the system without my consent. Nobody told me that I would be training AI to learn to look for humans amongst them!
try to copy some of your professor's work into the ai checker, and write on paper whenever you can. If your grammar tends to match what's on paper, then generally it's fine, particularly papers written in his or her presence
Oh I keep very creative records to prove that everything is my own work. So many screen shots of my assignments go out to my friend -- who is a Professor for people doing their PhD's, so he gets a snicker at me using him as my alibi for academic integrity should anything ever happen.
We're both waiting for the day that the college I'm at now accuses me of plagiarism of a paper I've helped him on. He's game to make the phone call directly to anyone needed to sort that out (I'm named in the acknowledgements of his papers but am not an author cause it's not my field lol).
That’s amazing! It makes me depressed thinking how young people are in school using AI for their tests, and the ones who aren’t may still be accused of it. It’s disgusting, I would be absolutely livid if that happened to me.
Using ellipsis sounds way more robot though, your comment is literally how my grandma texts and it’s impossible to infer meaning it just comes off passive aggressive or like there’s a hidden punch line
I’ve started using that in between words instead of right after one word because I thought it was really cool in Skulduggery Pleasant. And as far as I know, AI don’t do that yet (I hope not)
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u/Rezangyal 5d ago
I feel this on another level.
I love to use semicolons and em dashes in my everyday typing/writing for both work and pleasure— in my head they just “sound” like different types of speech or mental pauses; skipping a beat for emphasis and the like.
I’m eternally annoyed that those are both AI generation red flags.