Mastodawn

Do we need a term (probably German) for the anxiety that one's work might look like it was generated by machines?

I heard from someone near me today that to make your work appear less like it was machine-generated the emerging rule is that you should not use the 'em dash', nor write in paragraphs, rather one text block.

I have prior heard another say that text summaries at the end of an article are seen as indication of genAI use, as is text free of typos.

Has anyone heard of other references to behaviour-change born of such anxiety?

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Julian Oliver May 26

This article shared by @slackline has some strongly-related fight in it https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please

Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

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Court Cantrell won't conform

@JulianOliver @slackline As a human novelist, I intend to keep using em dashes to my heart's content. I've used them for 30+ years, they have served me well, and I'm not gonna let AI ruin them for me!