I started exploring the topic of "ChatGPT hyphen" and… it's even more odd than I originally anticipated. Turns out that it originated with a video of two girls discussing a press release of some fashion brand that had lots of em dashes in it — they didn't even call it "ChatGPT hyphen" at the time — it was still a hyphen, but some other kind, attributing it solely to ChatGPT is a later addition 😆
Now the most bizarre part — they don't even dislike LLM-based chat bots, they consider them nice tools that are okay to use, they just think that making use of these tool too obvious is disrespectful to customers, so what they think the company should have done is *replace* em dash with minus or something in that vein.
Apparently the video became popular enough for some to start calling it "ChatGPT hyphen", those who think that using em dash is something out of the ordinary enjoy this kind of influence.
I have no idea how I would be re-joining the workforce with this kind of people around… 😅
Considering the journalists haven't made all of this up — I didn't go as far as fact-checking any of it.
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