alt Hacker NewsI’m sure—pretty sure—we can use em-dashes w/o setting off the slop bells.
And try to substitute them, you may; but the bell might still ring.
(Yeah it stinks we have to adapt to avoid sounding like a model, especially for the best writers who were probably ripped off a lot more than the rest of us.)
I have started honing a method of trolling where i intentionally write like a crappy AI, but, do it by hand, just to prank my anti-AI friends. Gotta get my kicks somewhere. It's not just fun-- it's annoying. :-)