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>>giulio+(OP)
"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords."

OK, but please don't do what pg did a year or so ago and dismiss anyone who wrote "delve" as AI writing. I've been using "delve" in speech for 15+ years. It's just a question where and how one learns their English.

>>milanc+p6
Same thing as with em dashes. Some of us have been using em dashes from before ChatGPT.

>>diego_+m8
Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it, whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it. That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key, and few people even know how to produce an actual emdash.

That's what makes it such a good giveaway. I'm happy to be told that I'm wrong, and that you do actually use the proper double long dash in your writing, but I'm guessing that you actually use the human slang for an emdash, which is visually different and easily sets your writing apart as not AI writing!

>>Taek+Nd
It's just Option + dash. Using option as a modifier is second nature if you ever write other than English and need, eg, é or ñ or something.

>>losved+LB
Fwiw, that’s actually an En dash not an Em dash. You need a Shift in there to get an Em dash.

>>jandy+oC
It depends on the keyboard layout. Some (US) do have it like you described, but others have the dashes reversed.

Both make sense, to a degree. On the one hand you can argue that the em-dash—being longer—should require and extra key, but on the other hand it has more uses so it should not have the extra key to be more accessible.

>>latexr+xi1
Ah I hadn’t considered keyboard layouts.