Men, where have you gone? Please come back

5 012673 7 6/20/2025, 4:04:42 PM nytimes.com ↗

Comments (7)

neuralkoi · 3h ago
matt-attack · 3h ago
Paywalled. Anyone have a link?
metaprofessor · 28m ago
neuralkoi's link to archive.ph works.
neuralkoi · 2h ago
My ChatGPT meter tells me that it *feels* like this was written by AI:

Notice the excessive use of the em dash throughout the article combined with the sycophantic contrasts ChatGPT loves to use so much:

"It wasn’t intimacy. It wasn’t mutuality. It was access to simulation — clean, fast and frictionless."

A sad state of affairs if the NYT is letting AI-slop through.

inkywatcher · 2h ago
The dashes thing is really only a tell for high schoolers and obvious illiterates –writers can and do use them. Next we need to teach GPT about interrobangs.
ashwinsundar · 1h ago
Your ChatGPT meter is probably broken
audunw · 2h ago
Yeah cause it’s completely unimaginable that a professional writer would use em dash /s

https://www.nightwater.email/em-dash-ai/

I do dread the wave of AI slop coming our way. But honestly what I dread even more is the comments that’s going to second guess every other article and comment, just because they use some character or style that people have decided is a sign of being AI generated. That’s gonna get tedious real fast.