Comment Re: Detectors Grossly Overestimate Their Ability (Score 1) 34
Using em-dashes is perfectly good and common English usage in writing. AI is using them properly, though using them more than a human normally would.
I haven't tried asking one to not use them lately but when I tried a few months ago it went quite insane and started doing all kinds of weird stuff.
The bigger issue is that the big models like Claude are becoming less and less capable of writing fiction because they're being trained to produce boring business stuff and that eliminates the ability to make up stories or write in a literary style. I'm told they're also being loaded up with more and more layers of "safety" which refuse to write in existing styles or even to edit work that might be copyrighted, even if the user is the one who originally wrote it.
Meanwhile I'm sure companies like Amazon must have their own internal AIs in development so they can just look at the kind of books people read and automatically generate a book tailored to the things they like.