TLDR Tech / Marketing
Why Care About The Stupid Em Dash Anyway?
Fear of looking AI-generated has created a form of reputational self-surveillance, where marketing teams are removing normal punctuation to preempt accusations that have not been made. The concern behind the trend is real as AI leans on certain marks and constructions hard enough that they start to feel like tells. The response should not be banning punctuation - it should be building a writing standard specific enough that the copy is unmistakably yours.
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