[beej71]

> It's worth the cost of humans avoiding them.

No, fuck that. I'm not going to think twice about what I write just to avoid an AI checker, and I will delve into em dashes with gusto if that's what the writing calls for.

I'm not sacrificing the language simply to sound less like AI--that's absolutely a losing game.

And if anyone thinks my hand-crafted prose is AI-generated, they're free to look elsewhere. Right now AI detectors peg my pre-AI work as 30% AI-generated, and I'm certain that number will only increase as LLMs improve.

[maleldil]

> I'm not going to think twice about what I write just to avoid an AI checker

It depends on your environment, I guess. If you're a student writing an essay or a researcher writing a paper, it's in your best interest to avoid sounding like an LLM, which means going out of your way to avoid certain idioms, even if it means letting go of things you liked to write.

I used to love a spaced en dash (the British English equivalent of the American unspaced em dash), but I wouldn't risk it now.

[beej71]

Eventually, though, you won't be able to avoid it.

[maleldil]

You're right, of course. But today, it's not a risk worth taking, at least not for professional writing where the suspicion of LLM writing can be damning.