Ethan Mollick says AI-writing sameness is about craft, not em dashes or bullet lists
emollick · x · 2026-07-21
Ethan Mollick argues that people often over-focus on obvious LLM tells like em dashes or list formatting.
Using a quoted passage as an example, he says the text does not feel like LLM output at all, despite the surface features people usually point to. His point is that what makes AI writing feel samey is less about punctuation or formatting and more about deeper craft choices—voice, rhythm, imagery, and sentence-level judgment.
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