I used to be an em-dash user, but now my opinion is that I’d rather be perceived as someone who does not want to be confused with an LLM. So I’ve changed my writing style.

I propose that humans use Unicode U+2E3B three em dash ⸻ it is an impressively long character.

I might like to see a collection of pre-2022 em-dash usage—a subset I suppose of the Low Background Steel category (https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai).

I still use them frequently. On iOS you just tap the hyphen twice, and it inserts an em dash—sorta like that.

You completely misunderstanding the comment feels like an AI trigger

It’s so they don’t train on AI data, right?

The question is whether the m-dashes are surrounded by spaces or not. The spaces are utterly maddening. But yeah, RIP the mdash, who would have thought.