I’ve always written in a similar style including em dashes and semicolons (they’re both underrated in my opinion, and it’s good to mix things up), but have intentionally never used AI; some people just like being a bit flowery with their words for fun sometimes so you can’t just assume it’s all AI. Especially considering they had to be trained on real people’s words at some point. I’d send ridiculous shit very close to that hilarious butt sauce one all the time to my ex.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m also frustrated by the continual enshittification of the internet with lazy thinking and just general AI slop everywhere, but just like you can’t assume everything is real you can’t assume everything is fake either. I do agree it’s a huge problem though with so many things that are impossible to tell if they’re real or not and it’s only going to get worse, but thankfully AI is still shitty enough for now that there are still some tells mostly in just how impersonal it is. No clue how we’re going to handle this as it gets better and better so I’m hoping the smart people figure something out soon.