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It’s a flag. On its own, it doesn’t mean that the content was synthesized by AI, but if there are a number of these flags together, then chances are high.

No singular red flag means much in isolation, but it’s a signal that when combined with others can give a pretty good prediction.

Oh no! I’d been noticing an unusual amount of em dash discussion recently, but hadn’t investigated why. In college my professors would accuse me of plagiarizing my essays because I wrote so much more competently than I spoke. Now I’m going to be accused of employing AI for one of the few practices I find too enjoyable ever to source to an LLM. Oh well.

All of my reddit profiles now admit I am a bot because of this myth - also I believe we are all bots.