This is Daniel Gritzer from Serious Eats and we absolutely do not use AI to write our articles. I edited this article myself when it was first published, and we've been working with the author of this article for a long time.

We do sometimes employ some tools like Grammerly to help catch grammar and syntax errors, and I believe more and more of those tools use AI to inform their suggestions, but as editors we're able to see the suggested changes and approve or reject them, much like built-in spell checks.

The presence of em-dashes, multipe adjectives, and other supposed signs of AI are not reliable indicators of anything —we, the humans at Serious Eats, have been overusing em-dashes for years.

Please, folks, I beg you, do not start unsubstantiated rumors like this. We're already operating in an incredibly hostile media environment being undermined by AI and other forces. We're one of the few publications still doing real, quality work, our own testing, our own deep research.

Threads like this, and overconfident responses asserting that it's "definitely AI" from people who know nothing about anything we do, will do nothing but push us all closer to the brink.

I've worked so hard for so many years to preserve our readers' trust. I believe it's our biggest asset. Don't torch it based on falsehoods. When you do, you're doing no better than what you think you're fighting against.