I seriously cannot stand the fact that there are so many people on this platform making a huge amount of money that do not do any writing or research on their own and simply outsource EVERYTHING to artificial intelligence.

When you see someone’s writing and it looks like this:

‘The proliferation of AI-generated text has created an interesting linguistic phenomenon — the overuse of em dashes has become something of a telltale signature. AI models seem inexplicably drawn to this particular punctuation mark — perhaps because it offers such versatility in connecting thoughts, adding emphasis, or creating dramatic pauses — and they deploy it with an enthusiasm that borders on the obsessive. What's particularly striking is how this over-reliance has become so recognizable that it's actually changing human writing behavior — people are now consciously avoiding em dashes to distance themselves from the perception of artificial authorship. It's almost ironic — a punctuation mark that was once considered sophisticated and literary has now become a red flag for automated content — forcing writers to reconsider their stylistic choices not based on clarity or flow, but on the fear of being mistaken for a machine. The em dash, once a tool of nuanced expression — capable of indicating sudden shifts in thought or adding parenthetical information with more drama than commas — has become a victim of its own AI-driven popularity.’

This was generated using AI by the way to prove my point. AI generated content uses the em dash symbol constantly ‘—’. Human writers do not use this except in very formal circumstances and then only occasionally (unless you are writing for the New Yorker or academic white papers).

When you see ‘people’ using these liberally in their writing, chances are - it is all AI generated garbage. Unsubscribe from their newsletter.

Stop feeding the AI beast.