Were semicolons in subheadings common before AI? This subheading of the TomsHardware article just seems very artificial:
> The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.
They were if you read a news source that catered to literate readers.
Oh god dammit, I have to stop using semicolons now? That's stupid.
I mean, it's a terrible subheading because it's way too long, but it's grammatically correct. It doesn't read like AI to me, why do you think it is?
Not long ago it would have been an em dash.