The Em Dash Predates Your AI Detector

Description

The image splits a pale background between a long block of bold black text on the left and a stock photo of a man in a light blue shirt covering his face with both hands on the right. The text begins, "No, Sharon — my document was NOT written using AI. It was written in 2013." It continues that the writer used to Google "em dash," copy the character, and substitute it for a normal dash because it looked more aesthetically pleasing, then says, with the visible misspelling "coincedially," that "The dude who wrote ChatGPT" thought the same thing. It concludes, "Now all my old documents look like they were written with AI. I'm not over it, I'm not happy about it, and I don't want to talk about it anymore," satirizing how a once-personal punctuation preference has become an unreliable cultural fingerprint for generated prose.