> because they’re trying to normalise the AI’s writing style,
AIs use em dashes because competent writers have been using em dashes for a long time. I really hate the fact that we assume em dash == AI written. I've had to stop using em dashes because of it.
Likewise, I’m now reluctant to use any em dashes these days because unenlightened people immediately assume that it’s AI. I used em dashes way before AI decided these were cool
LaTeX made writing Em dashes very easy. To the point that I would use them all the times in my academic writing. It's a shame that perfectly good typography is now a sign of slop/fraud.
