It’s a rough time for those of us who have always used en- and em-dashes and who structure documents with bullet points. I’m fortunate that writing comes easily and quickly, but these days probably most people who read my docs assume it’s AI. I can’t bring myself to abandon my beloved em-dashes though.
That people assume proper use of punctuation and clear writing are signals of AI just tells you about the sorry state of education. And it’s only going downhills from here.
I’m torn here — first instinct is to agree. But then maybe we’re just prescriptivists complaining about the kids not doing language right, like when people insist that some archaic meaning of a word is the “real” one. Maybe it’s just evolution of language and AI is writing in an older style because of training data?