Llm on Extra Long Division https://extralongdivision.com/tags/llm/ Recent content in Llm on Extra Long Division Hugo en-us Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:17:14 -0700 IDGAF I'm Still using the Em Dash https://extralongdivision.com/articles/idgaf-im-still-using-the-emdash/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:17:14 -0700 https://extralongdivision.com/articles/idgaf-im-still-using-the-emdash/ <p>AI<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> is ruining writing.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;t mean how AI slop is polluting the internet. I don&rsquo;t mean <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-ruining-our-skills-early-results-are-in-and-theyre-not-good/">how our reliance on them is degrading our skills</a>. I mean flesh and blood writers avoiding certain patterns to duck AI-use accusations. The most common one: the em dash.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyphen-writing-communication.html">The New York Times defended the em dash better than me</a>. My gripe is the unexpected burden AI has put on humans — proving they are human.</p> AI1 is ruining writing.

I don’t mean how AI slop is polluting the internet. I don’t mean how our reliance on them is degrading our skills. I mean flesh and blood writers avoiding certain patterns to duck AI-use accusations. The most common one: the em dash.

The New York Times defended the em dash better than me. My gripe is the unexpected burden AI has put on humans — proving they are human.

We all despise reCAPTCHA, but generative AI and LLMs2 are a different beast. Job candidates are holding up a hand in front of their face in zoom calls. Students run their essays through AI detection algorithms before submission.

But I have no one to convince. Even if it is a GPT3-ism, IDGAF4 . I will continue to use my beloved em dash until data centers cause the heat death of humanity.

Why are there footnotes?

  1. artificial intelligence ↩︎

  2. large language models; Chat-GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, etc. are examples ↩︎

  3. Chat-GPT ↩︎

  4. I don’t give a f*ck ↩︎

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