The em dash, one of the most versatile punctuation marks in English, has become widely associated with AI-generated text since 2024. The accusation reveals less about artificial intelligence than ...

If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they’re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...