🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

It’s McSweeney, so …

I am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits.

‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot.

‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere

Either

1. a lot of people recently attended writing courses OR

2. they are using AI

Is there a third option?

look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.