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 ...

It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much ...

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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 ...

If you're reading something that was generated by AI, there may be signs. A chatbot might delve into or conceptualize or leverage a topic or overuse adjectives and transition words that humans rarely ...

As an author, I love the em dash — that lovely little diversion from the main idea — but I never meant for it to go viral via ...