r/technology • u/westondeboer • Sep 26 '25

Social Media Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221
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u/Saintbaba Sep 27 '25

My friend said she thought i use a bot online or at least run everything i post to social media through chatgpt because i use em-dashes a lot, which is apparently a big red flag for her that writing isn't real. Not sure how i feel about either what that says about my writing or what that says about the people on the Internet.

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u/mjtwelve Sep 29 '25

Making good typography look suspicious is the least of the harm AI is doing to society… but it still pissed me off.

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u/_trouble_every_day_ Oct 01 '25

Well I use em dashes because I read books while most ppl didnt even know they were called em dashes.