The irony: an AI editor just told TheZvi to add an em-dash
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-06
AI commentator TheZvi shares a funny moment: his editing tool, Fable, actually instructed him to insert an em-dash into his writing.
The irony is rich — the em-dash has become the signature tell of AI-generated text, with human writers rushing to purge it, while an AI editor is now asking a human to put one back in.
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