@amin Reading articles written by AI can be interesting — spotting AI articles can be fun for some people.
It's not just that they sound robotic or remove all personal associations, there's lots of other ways to tell such as:

• use of em-dashes (often overuse of them)
• use of "It's not just", "not only" sentence structures
• lists of three

(This post was written by a human, in an attempt at satire in the tone of AI)

P.S. I agree. I'd always prefer to read an article full of poor spelling and grammar than a dull and robotic supposed fact dump

@amin i recently pointed out to one of my clients that an article they had "written" and put in their newsletter was clearly written by AI

It contained 14 em-dashes. Don't get me wrong, em-dashes have a purpose, but when they said "no I typed them" I responded, "OK, type me an em-dash now on your keyboard"
Long story short, they couldn't.

@thedoctor my understanding is it can be used similar to how we sometimes use a comma today to put a sort of footnote in the middle of a sentence.

@amin made a great example when pointing out I used an em-dash in my first post

It was used a lot in history, just not so much these days. If AI is good for one thing though, it's for bringing the em-dash back

@paul @thedoctor

Specifically how I used it then was for parenthetical information. In other words, you can use em dashes any time you might otherwise put parentheses around a phrase. Em dashes are essentially a meaningful pause; I would usually use em dashes in transcription of spoken dialogue instead of parentheses, as I believe it better represents how the words were actually spoken, while parentheses feel more technical and are used in written communication.

You can also use one em dash in places you might otherwise put a semicolon (;) or a colon (:), where I also see it as more natural and less formal feeling. In that case the em dash does tend to imply a very direct connection between the two halves, and usually the second one is shorter, perhaps just one clause at most.

Speaking of transcribing dialogue, I would use an em dash to signify a line being cut off or interrupted in the middle:

"The reports are on your—"

"That's fine, that's fine, but where is the coffee?"

In contrast, I'd use an ellipsis to represent a sentence trailing off, intentionally left incomplete or open-ended.

"But I wanted to go to the water park today…"