The em-dash has become an AI tell—and now human writers are avoiding it to not sound like ChatGPT 🤖
This article explores how LLMs learned to overuse em-dashes, why AI detectors flag certain writing styles, and how fear of sounding “AI-generated” may change how people write online
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Upon ChatGPT's release in 2022, I realized that I wrote like AI. My sentences were long, my writing patterns were predictable, and my use of em-dashes was frequent. Initially, I was not concerned: if ...
