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by senkora on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:15PM
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Based on the use of em dashes and general tone, this post and this comment were both written with AI assistance.
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That’s a lot of confidence with a vanishingly small amount of evidence. I am constantly accused of being an AI for articles I blogged more than 20 years ago.
I use—still—em dashes whenever I feel like they are better than commas, parentheses or semicolons.
Because that’s what they are for, and this is English after all. Some people don’t approve, and I approve of their disapproval—it’s a free country and writing is a creative process.
What doesn’t contribute are comments that discredit and disparage without adding anything to the conversation.
Do you think that this post, by an AI company, talking about workflows for AI tools, which is structured into nested headings and bullet points, which uses the red X and green check emojis, as well as the em dash, was not written with the assistance of AI tools?
I think it contributes when people generally disparage AI and the people who abuse it. This is one way that we build up a social awareness that faking your work with AI is not okay.