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I have an unusual way of communicating sometimes that used to be quirky and fun. Now I simply get accused of being a bot. Before LLMs I never got accused of being a robot. I think the idea of good writing is soon going to morph with writing that doesn’t feel like it was made with AI.
It drives me crazy that em-dashes are supposedly a smell for AI now. The em-dash is a great and underused bit of punctuation. I am just glad I am not in college dealing with all the AI and faulty AI detection crap happening. Ridiculous false accusations of plagiarism were already awful enough before this.
They're an excellent tell for comments written on places like HN, Reddit, and other forms of social media. The average person (myself included) simply does not write very well and I would wager the majority of English speakers are not able to properly use an em-dash.
I expect them in books and suspect that's where the AI models are getting them from, but those are being written largely by professionals.
It's at a point where the moment I see an em-dash on a social media post I cease reading it and move on to the next.