Lea Verou, PhD on Nostr: I keep finding myself rewording text to remove em dashes, because some people use ...
I keep finding myself rewording text to remove em dashes, because some people use them as a proxy to filter out AI-generated content.
Mute em dashes, block AI bots — and typography nerds.
What surreal times we live in.
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2025-06-13 13:36:22 UTCEvent JSON
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