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Let’s talk about the European Championship. Not the little innocent hyphen, not his more self -confident cousin, the dash. No, I speak of the ‘Em -Dash’, so long, dramatic line that Ki -Loooooowes should fall in your sentences as if it were paid for pro dash. Seriously, it is the AI version of Jazz Hands.
You may not notice it, but most others do it. It is the dead giveaway that you let your favorite robot buddy attract your words in Ki Drag, and just like a bad wig in the third act of Rupaul’s drag raceIt can be a little too much. Let me set the scene: you write your team a warm email. Something vulnerable, maybe even raw: “I thought a lot about how we work together – and how we can be better – not just as a colleague, but as humans.”
Except waiting. You have not written this sentence You did it. They just wanted it to repair a typo and maybe increase the sound, but now it is full of EM lines, introspective pace and strangely placed poetic breaks. They were officially “EM-Marked”.
What is the EM brand for AI?
The EM -Dash is the long horizontal line ( -), which is often used instead of commas, colons, brackets or occasionally dramatic break. It’s like the Swiss army knife of punctuation, and Ai loves it.
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AI is obsessed with EM stitches, as is obsessed with gen z of Y2K fashion; It is confusing, strangely stylish and borderline when they are overused. But here is the kicker: Ai uses them with them like sprinkles on the cupcake of a child, everywhere. Even if it is not appropriate. Even if you say: “No sprinkles, please.”
I literally typed AI: “Please remove the lines.” And what do I come back? “Have it!” Followed by:
“This is a great chance – one who demands urgency – and clarity – for maximum effects.” Thanks, GPT. You removed exactly zero.
So how do you sound human (but still use Ai)?
Despite the Dash drama, I am not here to tell you that you should throw away AI completely. AI is brilliant When polishing, formulating and threading from your own mental path. But like a child with glitter glue, you still have to monitor it.
Here three actually helpful tips are to make sure that your communication is still listening YouNot Hal 9000 with a journalism.
1. Human first draft, Robot second
Always, and I always mean, write the first draft itself. Let it be chaotic, tipproof, emotionally chaotic and uncomfortably honest. That gives your voice the fingerprints.
Then Let the AI repair it, reorganize and suggest a better river, but not beforehand. Ai cannot guess what they meant if they don’t give it first with which they can work with him. Otherwise, it only serves a perfectly interrupted bowl of oatmeal with the emotional depth of a DMV form book. Imagine it: You are the cook, AI is only your unusual sous boss with a tiny top hat. They say what they do. You don’t let it invent the recipe.
2. Grate the EMS (and other AI told)
As soon as Ai gives you your best version, you rip apart as if you are working on a script about a talking golden retriever who writes blogs.
Seek:
- Em strokes (obviously)
- The expression “in today’s fast -moving world” (AIS favorite opening line)
- Overuse of rhetorical questions
- Repeated alliteration (AI really finds it clever)))
Make a “find and replace” for ” -” if you have to. Replace them with commas, periods or, forbid God, actual breaks in the thought. Your sound will be humanized immediately. When her sentence feels like he is telling Morgan Freeman in a natural documentary film, he is probably too AI ISH.
3. Add the “you” back in
Read it again after polishing. Read it loudly. Ask yourself:
- Would I say that loudly at the brunch?
- That sounds like me or a guest columnist for Forbes Do you try too much?
- Have I accidentally quoted Tony Robbins?
If it feels too stiff or polished, loosen it and add a small slang. Break a grammar rule, use sentence fragments, write how you speak when you are three mimoses deep, and give your best friend of the friend. That is the secret sauce.
Example:
AI version: “Let us explore innovative solutions to increase our business route.”
Your version: “Let us find out how we can stop turning our bikes and actually growing this thing.”
Feel the difference?
Why you should still use AI, even if she likes her more than socially acceptable
AI is not the enemy, it is her employee, her co-author, her above-average intern, who drank too much espresso and came back with a model of 1,200 words for a brunch flyer.
Use it to:
- Pull your message
- Help with structure and flow
- Make your writing pop when you are fried with brain
- Get a blank-page syndrome without crying
Just don’t let it be the only voice in the room. Imagine this as automatically, helpful if it is right, funny if it is wrong and dangerous if you are not careful.
When your message sounds as if it belongs to one Wall Street Journal OP-E-ED, but you only try to send your VA via a podcast time by email, to step back one step, kill the European Championship strings, to regain your strange little voice and remember: Ki does not replace youIt only makes them sound more intelligent. If you supervise it like a helicopter part at a middle school dance.
Now continue, edit like a person, delete like a wild and send them with boast. (And please, analogous to the love of all things, remove the European Championship strings.)
Starr Hall is an entrepreneur, experienced publicist and marketer.
