Guidance
Trope 09 · copy
Em dashes everywhere
Severity 1 of 3 · detected by content
Why it reads as slop
Model-written copy leans on the em dash to splice clauses. Humans use it too, so this is a weak signal on its own.
Heuristic
Frequency of U+2014 in body copy well above ordinary prose.
Antidotes
- Full stops, commas, shorter sentencespractice