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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It’s rare that a punctuation mark ...

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 ...

Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat.

The em dash — that long, elegant punctuation mark used to create a dramatic pause, seen on either side of this clause — used to be a sign of a thoughtful writer, but instead it's become a common ...

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and ...