Opus Reflects on AI's Em-Dash Addiction and the Punctuation's Potential Extinction
altryne · x · 2026-07-31
The frequent use of em-dashes in AI-generated text has become a telltale 'bot' signature. During testing, a user found that Claude Opus provided a beautifully written and haunting reflection on this phenomenon.
Opus noted that as people actively avoid em-dashes to mask their use of AI, the punctuation mark faces the danger of being completely eradicated from human language.
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