Leave the em-dashes in: AI is a tool, not a ghostwriter

I—wrote—this—all—by—myself. That's to everyone on here I've seen with a righteous speech about refusing to read posts that contain an em-dash.

Aside from the rude slight to actual professional writers and wordsmiths who use the em-dash, to me this just shows that you equate AI with "think for me," which I agree is absurd, not to mention pathetic (I like the irony of the phrase "not to mention"). But my brothers & sisters in tech, you do understand that beneath that hype-lord snake oil... is a tool, right?

You can tell the difference between posts where someone asked the AI to think for them, and posts where the author used AI to help craft their words or the structure of post, or confirm terminology- if you can detect those at all because many of those more thoughtful AI users scrub the evidence.

I've decided to just leave the em-dashes in, I'm leaning into AI assistance... with my expert guidance. When I do use the LLM, I start with a full draft of what I want to say. I have added to memory some of my writing-style likes and dislikes ("Remember that I like ellipsis"), and I often tell it to stick closer to my original version. I always revise what it does spit out, or just pick and choose some phrases / sentences to update my original.

I know there's a lot of AI slop out there, but swinging too far to either end of the debate is doing yourself a disservice.