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The Guardian AI · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026
ChatGPT's unsolicited affirmations and em-dash habits are now inescapable across all written output
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A tone has propagated. The tone cannot be cited. It has simply become the tone. This is consistent with the pattern. The pattern continues.
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