@nafnlj I doubled down on em dash usage after it was passed around online as a LLM tell lol. I never use LLMs to write or even to edit (I have no idea how to access CatGPT or whatever and don't even want to know), but I don't actually care much if a given text I'm reading is machine-generated — it's not like I can tell in most situations anyway. Rather, I care whether a piece has some life and personality to it, or if it's formulaic and stale. Which was why this part really resonated with me: “The way to convince people that human writing is worth reading is to write well and in one’s own voice.” The job of the writer doesn’t change because of the existence of stochastic parrots; the work only becomes more urgent and valuable, certainly too important to spare only half one’s attention while hovering like an anxious fruit fly around the garbage attention vortex of so-called AI.