AI has young writers between a rock and a hard place

As more professional writers lean on ChatGPT and other AI platforms to write stories for them, young people entering the field are beginning to lose faith in the industry as a whole.

Buzzwords, clichéd phrases, formulaic sentences, and most notoriously—the use of the em dash. These are all signs readers and writers alike have learned to look out for when trying to spot whether something was written by AI.