AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and less robotic. This trend highlights a new anxiety around writing, as perfect ...

AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...

I spend a considerable part of my day behind a keyboard writing news stories, and over the past few years, I've adopted many different writing styles — the most recent of which integrates em dashes.

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, ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

The em dash has long been a favorite punctuation mark of writers everywhere. This lengthier dash can replace a comma or a colon. It’s also sometimes used to sum up info at the end of the sentence, to ...

I’ve been teaching English for more than twenty years, long enough to watch punctuation trends come and go like fashion. The Oxford comma had its civil war. The semicolon had its fall from grace. But ...

There are multiple ways to type a Hyphen, En dash, and Em dash in Microsoft Word on a Windows 11/10 PC. In this post, we will cover the following methods in detail: Word’s built-in keyboard shortcuts ...

On November 14, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media, “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

While scrolling through social media, I've bumped into a ton of posts claiming that em dashes are synonymous with AI -generated content from tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. This couldn't be ...