• Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    3·
    5 个月前

    I had never seen it before the LLM surge. Although that might be a case of Baader Meinhof

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 个月前

      I’ve been using en (not em) dashes for like 20 years.

      They’re used more often in German typography, and I’ve only seen em dashes without spaces around them which is ugly, so I stuck with them.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        3·
        5 个月前

        Again, I had never seen it before, regardless of the fact that it’s easy to type

        • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          5 个月前

          The fact you haven’t seen it and that it’s so common in LLM output just means there’s a huge amount of the internet you don’t look at. That could be a good or bad thing—depending on your perspective.

          • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            5 个月前

            And in fairness, common things can still be a tell of some kind. The first time I saw a normal webpage rendered in Computer Modern was friggin’ surreal.

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        3·
        5 个月前

        Fwiw, I believe that’s an en dash. Slightly smaller than an em dash (—), but bigger than a hyphen (-).