[eadmund]

• Neatly-formatted lists Neatness could be a sign of a machine, or it could be a sign of a diligent human author.

• Subtitles only a committee would come up with That seems to me like a matter of opinion and taste — and we all have different tastes.

• Emojis preceding every statement I counted three emoji pull quotes in a multi-page document. I suppose it could be an LLM, but it could also just be a nice style.

• Em-dashes and ‘it isn’t X, it’s Y' This is why I posted in the first place, and downvoted you. There is nothing wrong with em-dashes — I love them. I use them a lot. Frankly, I probably overuse them. I’ve used them since I was a kid: I am going to use them — and over-use them — as long as I live. As for ‘Love isn’t a feeling you wait to have — it’s a series of actions you choose to take,’ that just seems like normal English to me.

It’s very possible in 2025 that the article was LLM-written, or written by a man and cleaned up by an LLM, or written by a man and proofread by an LLM, or written by a man. It does not have the stilted feel of most LLM works to me, but I might just miss it.

An em-dash isn’t an indicator of an LLM — it’s a sign of someone who discovered typography early.