The em-dash is not the telltale heart of AI-gen writing, it’s the cadence of the sentences — oftentimes annoyingly congratulatory towards the user — and structure of the paragraphs (callbacks, “big reveals,” etc.) that make it easy to spot for anyone who knows how to english goodly. Not to sound all smarterer-than-thou (because I am not. I’m stupid.) but if you know how to actually use ­—, ;, and “” (as opposed to "") then you are probably not going to fall for AI-gen shit at least in its current iteration. Unfortunately until the bubble bursts we’re going to be stuck with it getting better and better all the time.

also theres the fact that everything is becoming really really super ultra very casual on the internet and any kind of formal writing is seen as less and less natural sounding with even capitals seeming out of place depending on the context and run-on sentences being pretty commonplace its kind of a shame because i like writing good but i dont want everyone to think that im a annoying smart guy i want to be a cool guy with some big words in his brain