A former BioWare employee says that EA's new management wasn't on board with the developer's inclusiveness.

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[–] 11 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Real people use em dashes. That is a common place in human writing to use an em dash, or it would not have become a trend in the averaging that is LLM-generated text.

We cannot assume this comment was written by a bot. It was short and only used one em dash in a normal place.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Maybe people should stop using “it isn’t x it’s y” and em dashes in the same way that people stopped using fasces and swastikas. Shits tainted now

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's common English sentence structure, not a symbol of a group that killed six million Jews and many others.

    Do not compare this to the holocaust. That is just remarkably immature.

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  • [–] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    I compared it to modern day american fascism actually. You brought up the holocaust in the same comment you’re saying not to compare it with 😭

    And I mean I think it is pretty comparable to the holocaust, considering what data centers are doing to the environment

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

    I compared it to modern day american fascism actually

    You said that people should stop using em dashes the way people stopped using swastikas. You do realize swastikas stopped being used because of Nazi Germany, not because of American fascism? Nazi Germany put a far greater stain on the symbol than American fascism ever has. Also, if you mention swastikas, you cannot in good faith claim that you aren't carrying the baggage of Holocaust in with it. The Holocaust is the event most closely associated with the swastika.

    You brought up the holocaust in the same comment you’re saying not to compare it with

    To bring up ≠ to compare. Also, aren't emojis (you used 😭) also a sign of AI writing? (ㆆ_ㆆ)

    Is generative AI a serious problem? Yes. Is the use of em dashes by human people comparable to the use of swastikas? Or is the use of em dashes as tainted or more tainted by AI than swastikas are by the horrors of fascism and Nazism? Absolutely not. The swastika is a uniquely shameful symbol; the use of a common English punctuation mark is not comparable. The fact that you seem to think they are comparable indicates that you either have a very warped view of the importance of punctuation style, or you have a very low view of the severity of fascism and the grave symbolism of the swastika. The former is disturbing, but the latter is damning.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)
    1. They did it right now which is well after the fact was established, on Lemmy out of all places where demographics obviously lean towards people that know this.
    2. It's mostly transcriptions of physical books and academic papers rather than people who digitally use the right alt key.
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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    The em dash is incredibly easy to access and use on mobile, so there's no need to memorize an alt code or copy-paste it from the internet or whatever.

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