Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
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A writer received an editor's request to remove all em dashes from their work because readers now assume this punctuation indicates AI-generated content, forcing the author to abandon their preferred writing style. Large language models learned to overuse em dashes after being trained on human writing that naturally included them, creating an ironic situation where authentic human expression is now viewed with suspicion.
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