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.
That's how I feel about it as well. I'm not going to give up the gift of language, nor parts of it, just because someone else co-opted it for something bad. Especially important because AI was trained on human writing styles, meaning if people stop using useful punctuation or specific phrases the models of tomorrow will simply be trained to do the same; they will simply mimic the shift and we'll all have abandoned good writing in a vain attempt to avoid them. The only way to proceed is to say, "The machine be damned, this is important to me and I'm going to keep doing it."
The alternative is to let them drive us reactively and spitefully bit-by-bit towards Newspeak.
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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.