Kagan MacTane (he/him)I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.
The Other Brook@kagan If using em dashes is a sign of being AI then I must have been assimilated about the time I started using word processors in the late '80s.
When I first started writing for the web and dealing with browser limitations I got used to coworkers coming over and asking me for the "ASCII code" because they could never remember it. I gave up trying to tell them that — is actually an HTML character entity and besides technically what they were calling "ASCII" was ISO 8859-1.
Wait... re-reading that maybe I am AI... how long has it been since I flunked an "I Am Not a Robot" captcha?