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The AI Writer’s Blind Spot

Why em dashes ("—") still "out" people using AI, and the simple alternatives few are talking about

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Bob Woods
Nov 19, 2025
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The TL;DR (Executive Summary)

  • Em dashes (”—”) are one of the biggest “AI tells” on the internet today.

  • Most AI-generated text leans on them in ways humans typically do not.

  • Cleaner, more natural alternatives exist that keep your writing human… without sacrificing rhythm (periods, ellipses, commas, colons, parentheses, and line breaks).

  • These alternatives ca…

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