A pre-GPT book already had the em dash style people now call AI-like
DynamicWebPaige · x · 2026-07-27
Readers spot GPT-like em dashes in a pre-GPT book
The post jokes that it feels surreal to see em dashes and AI-like sentence structure in books written before the GPT era.
The attached quote highlights a passage about Fairchild’s Micrologic chips and NASA, reinforcing the irony that the style now associated with AI clearly predates AI-generated text.
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