I used to use em-dashes pretty often and have just resigned myself to not using them. At least a dozen times the past couple months I’ve rewritten a sentence to remove an em-dash. Which sucks!
I think the reason em-dashes became such an LLM tell is because they just weren’t that common in pre-LLM writing. Parentheses are (I think?) a lot more common than em-dashes, so I would guess they won’t be as reliable a signal of LLM text.
I used to use em-dashes pretty often and have just resigned myself to not using them. At least a dozen times the past couple months I’ve rewritten a sentence to remove an em-dash. Which sucks!
I think the reason em-dashes became such an LLM tell is because they just weren’t that common in pre-LLM writing. Parentheses are (I think?) a lot more common than em-dashes, so I would guess they won’t be as reliable a signal of LLM text.