@charliermarsh: We are a few releases away from emdashes being considered a sign of non-slop human writing. Then the cycle continues.
Summary
The tweet comments on how future AI advancements may lead to emdashes being used as a marker of human writing to avoid AI slop, suggesting a cyclical pattern.
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