This Small Tool Makes AI Sound Human

"At first, I let it slide. But the more I wrote, the more it felt out of place. It did not sound like me. It felt like a tiny glitch in my voice. Then I realized I was not alone. Writers and creators started talking about it online. In other words, that long little dash was quietly saying: "No human touched this text". And that is the problem."

"Why build a plugin when you can just add don't use em dashes to the prompt? Because it doesn't always work. AI models can be like rebellious teenagers. You tell them not to do something, and they do it twice to prove a point. Some ignore the rule, some swap in en dashes pretending they're being "helpful, " and some just keep adding them because... honestly, I have no idea why."

AI writing tools often insert em and en dashes in ways that feel unnatural and signal machine generation. These dashes can make text sound unreviewed, unpolished, or rushed and reduce a writer's voice authenticity. Prompting models to avoid em dashes frequently fails because models ignore instructions, substitute en dashes, or behave inconsistently across services. Multiple AI tools have different defaults and personalities, complicating consistent output. Dashy Drop acts as a post-processing tool that removes or normalizes problematic long dashes, applying a simple universal fix that restores a more human rhythm and cleaner punctuation across platforms.

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