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It's a literary tool that is so pervasive in LLM output and so unused in most writing that it's become a common indicator that LLMs may be involved. Considering the disjointed flow from subject to subject and shittyness of the article in general, I think that the odds are in my favor.
Feel free to continue shouting from your high horse though.
I'm not sure whence your animosity comes. I'm been a columnist since the '90s, and I assure you: Em-dashes are on the menu.
To claim proof of LLMs is to say it was never done until then. It most assuredly was.
My animosity comes from ignoring every other point in my comment(s). I'm not saying no one ever used em-dashes before LLMs. You're being intentionally obtuse.
I'm not, but thanks for asking. I was literally a newspaper editor for the better part of two decades. You're not really seeming to grasp writing styles.
Okay? I've been in IT for the better part of two decades. You're not really seeming to grasp pattern recognition.
And you're not seeming to grasp that this sort of shit doesn't fly on Beehaw. You want to shout into the void? Fine. Plenty of other places to do that.
Lmao okay buddy. Didn't realize I was talking to fucking robo cop.