Delete Em Dashes to Avoid Sounding Like AI
armano · x · 2026-07-17
The author shared a self-deprecating meme: after making a final round of edits on a draft, they deleted all em dashes just so others wouldn't mistakenly assume the article was AI-generated. The core punchline highlights a modern writing anxiety in the generative AI era: even punctuation habits are now being scrutinized as "AI writing tells."
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