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Dumbing Down Your Writing

Is AI making writers second-guess themselves?

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Lisa
Nov 03, 2025
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I don’t know about you but I’m so bored of the whole nonsense narrative about how use of the em-dash is a sign something was written by AI. It’s ridiculous.

The first few posts I saw about it just made me roll my eyes. But it’s still raging on months later and I don’t understand why people are still bleating on about it.

Haven’t these people read a book…

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