If you’ve ever used AI for writing, or had to determine if something was written by AI, you'll know that some people now consider the em dash a telltale sign of AI use. OpenAI has now stepped in to ...

ChatGPT doesn’t ruin credibility because of em dashes. It ruins credibility through unearned authority. Here's how to ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared in a social media post that the company has now fixed ChatGPT’s overuse of the “em dash,” which is the extra-long hyphen that’s commonly seen in AI-generated text. In the ...

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...

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 ...

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 ...