I can’t comment about other venues, but on Hacker News it’s not at all. The type of people to assiduously use appropriate dashes, quotation marks, &c. have always been heavily represented here.

It used to be it was easy to tell apart Mac and Windows users by em dash usage. Now apparently Mac users are considered LLMs.

Do people have to lower their literacy to the level of a 6 year old and write like complete dumbasses in order to convince you that something isn’t AI generated?

I’m sure that pointing out the word ‘delve’ or the use of em-dash says more about the literacy of the reader than it does about the humanity of whoever wrote it.

> Em-dash is a strong indicator of such.

I see the blind superstition stage of AI has set in