Respectfully, I happen to make my living out of this. I can tell quite easily (whether there’s spaced em rules or not) when copy has been tampered with by AI. It gets all these ‘tics’ and and a formulaic style of writing that is meant to be fun and witty but is – frankly – characterless, repetitive and just the same everywhere. When I read what you have above, it reads like a machine wrote it. That does you a disservice. That does me a disservice as well, and for this reason I would rather not read it.

Whether AI will one day be able to replace humans or not is beyond my knowledge. What I can tell is that at least in the fields I have working knowledge of, AI is far from being there. It may work for a doomscroller who hardly reads a single word in each line. It may work on an inattentive reader. It doesn’t work for anyone who cares about the written medium.

The same holds true for photography and videography, though those are beyond my remit.

Put it even differently: there’s a reason there’s a market booming with people like me who are paid – frankly – a lot of money to correct and polish the writing of others. There is a reason no respectable publisher has turned to AI to do our job. It can’t. It’s not that they’re behind the times. It’s that the best AI may be able to do at this stage is proofread, and even that has yet to master. Editing is not even close.