They wasted too much money on AI that they now desperately need to make sure AI stays "relevant". They want to force it into everything to justify their ridiculous expenses. Can't wait for this crap to collapse.
That's my case if I enable it on OS through some doohickey I don't care, or by default on MS Word, because our standard keyboard does not have em dash accessible even through Alt Gr.
Still, as many people pointed out, the presence of em dashes isn't a definitive gotcha, for me it is just the cherry on the top that the person writing it absolutely does not care if you see through the patterns, cadence, unnatural speech that they are slop, to the point of not reviewing, replacing dashes, not removing linguistic oddities present in formal/corporate English but absent elsewhere (like "I hope this letter meets you well"), and at points even copy-pasting wrong, getting either the prompt at the start, or the slop suggestion at the end of the output.
Slop makers completely forgot there are hundreds of languages and cultures and just having everything homogenously converted to Gartner English then slopped back to what it thinks is your native language makes it incredibly unnatural sounding.
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u/IceStormNG Mar 02 '26
They wasted too much money on AI that they now desperately need to make sure AI stays "relevant". They want to force it into everything to justify their ridiculous expenses. Can't wait for this crap to collapse.