Oh, I guarantee you that this has not been touched by any AI. I used to use emdashes all the time, then people thought those were AI telltale signs, so I stopped. I loved making lists. Same thing.
Just write correctly in your preferred style, and ignore the anti‑AI hate. You’re allowed to say whatever you want, and you’re allowed to use AI as a tool while writing — there’s nothing wrong with it.
Angry AI-phobic keyboard warriors on the internet don't decide what's right or wrong, or what you're allowed to do.
(Is this very comment AI-generated? Make your guess. Good luck!)
Yeah that's annoying. Maybe you could add a disclaimer on your blog saying you do not use AI to write and then just write however you like the most? I think it would help both yourself and those who want to avoid AI content.
The 'no AI used' disclaimer is a nice idea, however, how long is that going to last?
We could all have disclaimers or identifiable 'stickers' such as what we had in the olden days of IE6, to send people over to Firefox/Chrome/whatever.
However, next time the tech bros scrape the web, their AI beasts could learn the trick, to decorate their piffling output with similar disclaimers.
In the olden days, 'the camera never lied', however, nowadays, 'the camera always lies'. Even if it is not AI, you know it has been staged and Photoshopped to within an inch of its pixels.
So, what to do?
One way would be to have 'guilds'. Maybe tie it into academic institutions, where teaching staff are at the sharp end of AI use and exacting penalties for AI abuse. Imagine if there was a 'guild of human writers' and being in it meant better SEO with the consequence of abusing AI meaning getting kicked out of the guild.
Ultimately though, without any 'guild system', it all comes down to quality content.
I was also a major fan of the em-dash, but my HN comments were too honest, harmless and helpful and now all major LLMs are RLed to sound like I do when I am supposed to be working.
