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Were semicolons in subheadings common before AI? This subheading of the TomsHardware article just seems very artificial:

> The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.

Oh god dammit, I have to stop using semicolons now? That's stupid.
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They were if you read a news source that catered to literate readers.
Not long ago it would have been an em dash.
I mean, it's a terrible subheading because it's way too long, but it's grammatically correct. It doesn't read like AI to me, why do you think it is?
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