The AI Effect: Humans Are Abandoning Em-Dashes
carsonfarmer · x · 2026-08-07
Developer Carson Farmer shared a keen observation on X: while reviewing his wife's entirely human-written article, he had to advise her against using em-dashes.
The reason is that AI-generated text heavily overuses em-dashes. Consequently, readers now instinctively suspect content is "AI slop" the moment they see this punctuation. It's a funny yet real example of how AI is inadvertently altering human writing habits.
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