r/confessions • u/Unlikely-Database-27 • Apr 17 '26

No ai posts allowed

This sub has been flooded with ai in the past. But not anymore. If you make a post with ai, where it is very obviously ai written, (we can tell) it will be removed, and you banned. Have fun, and lets hear some confessions. Human ones.

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u/Odd_Letterhead_5064 Apr 17 '26

Good call, was getting tired to see those weird perfect grammar posts that read like customer service responses.

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u/mpdscb Apr 17 '26

In all fairness, some of us do write in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. I even do this when I text. I do avoid semicolons and em dashes, though, as I'm not fully comfortable with them.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 8d ago

I think the dash is actually an awesome piece of punctuation that has been completely ruined by AI. It has real utility I think in writing. Of course you can always use a comma or a period and then start a new sentence.

But I think the dash was a useful way to add extra emphasis. And it totally I have noticed that AI tends to use it for that kind of emphasis rather than -- like some people will use it -- in pairs as a kind of aside.

Now I often replace dashes like that with parentheses or something but I just sucks that AI has a ruined a good piece of punctuation.

Any punctuation can be overused but amazing writers used m-dashes over the years from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut.

The semicolon is a little more controversial. It's utility is a little more questionable. It can be used correctly and incorrectly but it is never necessary, outside of maybe when you're doing lists.

(Ie, My favorite foods are the following: 1) Pizza; 2) hamburgers ;) etc...'