If AI was trained on the internet, where the hell did all the em-dashes come from?

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• The post observes a significant shift in punctuation usage, particularly the increase in em-dashes, in AI-generated text compared to previous years.
• This change is noted as odd since these models were supposedly trained on actual internet writing. The author argues that modern AI outputs now seem more like attempts at sounding sophisticated rather than reflective of how people actually write online.

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