AI Has Turned the Em Dash Into a Meme
sedielem · x · 2026-07-15
The author declared they would "never give up the em dash to clankers," quoting a complaint that because AI writing frequently uses em dashes, human writers now have to deliberately avoid them to prevent their work from looking like "AI-flavored" content.
The joke here is that punctuation has been stylized by AI to the point where the em dash has become a false signal of "human authorship."
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