Beyond the em dash: AI models' underrated hatred of parentheses
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-06
Stefan Schubert points out that while "AIs love em dashes" is well known, an underrated tell of AI writing is how rarely they use parentheses — another stylistic quirk useful for spotting machine-generated text.
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