[schrodinger]

I hear you. Coincidentally, I was actually called out just last night for a message with em dashes:

“Are you AI-ing me? Em dash giving you away”

It’s a pretty load-bearing (lol) example, yet it was clear in context it wasn’t serious. I’m beginning to notice people getting pretty good at detecting AI content, which I find reassuring.

It makes sense: AI-written prose is basically the homogenization of all styles of writing into a single voice, so it’ll stand out against the unique personalities we are used to seeing. It is just taking a minute for the average person to gain literacy — but it seems to be happening rather quickly, again unsurprising since we’re such social monkeys with a lot of our 15 watt brains dedicated to socialization and identity recognition.

Use your em-dash proudly!