[Leomuck]

There is already studies that confirm your fear, I think. They found that mainstream language is changing due to AI. Certain words get used proportionally more than before, etc. Also, if you check out some reddits, it's crazy how generic many things are. Because of AI. I do agree wholeheartedly that we need to read more. And also, that AI can also be a very cool tool for giving some people more power in a way.

[no_wizard]

The em dash in particular is being used a lot more thanks to AI. It’s become one of those tells where people start to ask if it’s AI or not.

[thatjoeoverthr]

The em dash is famous but I've noticed since (I think) December every hustler suddenly at once started using drama dots.

Like... That. Rhetorical ellipsis. Like you see in a 12 year old's fanfic.

I know one of the AIs had a style change. I think Grok. But it started using drama dots so now they are everywhere.

And unlike the em dash, _nobody_ notices. _Nobody_ sees it.

[dkubb]

The emdash and ellipsis used to be my bread and butter.

I just hope the LLMs don’t come for parenthesis for aside comments.

[no_wizard]

I’m tempted to start using brackets instead [like this]

[AstroBen]

I'm stating it here before anyone accuses me of being an LLM that I love using fanfic drama dots and I loved them before AI started with it.

[gzread]

Reddit is like 99% AI bots writing fake human-looking threads