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 ...

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 chatbot.

Over on Reddit, in a subreddit called r/ChatGPT, one user has helpfully rounded up nine of the details they noticed give away that something was written by AI - not including the em dash, which has ...

ChatGPT loves the em dash ( — ) the way a Labrador loves a tennis ball — enthusiastically, indiscriminately, and with absolutely no sense of when to let it go. That’s why seeing an em dash used in ...

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 ...

“Any chucklehead who disagrees with an online post can, if that post happens to include an em dash, dismiss it with the claim that it was written by a chatbot. It’s gotten so bad that people on random ...