• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    While the idea behind AI was that it would automate manual tasks and help workers focus on more value-added activities, some workers fear it will outright replace them — and that’s already happening

    Yeah, it already happened to the journalist that would have written this article. I find it a bit funny that the picture caption is just the prompt they used to generate it

      • shoe@feddit.uk
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        9 hours ago

        I use the em dash constantly, and have done for years, so finding out it’s a big “this was written by AI” indicator makes me sad — I’m not an AI user, I just like the way it looks!

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          2 minutes ago

          You can do the things all GenX people learned on typing class, the double hyphen.

          Also, we double space after periods. That’s a hard but of muscle memory to get out of my head.

          Source: Me. A in typing. 1984.

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
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          5 hours ago

          Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.