I’m sure it’s more some recency bias and me just never looking for it until the em dash became an ai hot topic but I feel like the reason it comes off as potentially ai despite so many people talking about how often they used it before the ai debate is just that the average user does not ever use them.
I sure never have. Not saying that it wasn’t often used, but by and large the average person online did not use them nor ever know they were a thing before they started being used by ai.
Notice how these videos also always include angry black cops yelling at surprisingly complacent white Ice guys for a little extra pandering woke warm fuzzies.