Yes, there is a real difference between a hyphen vs. dash. And here's how these tiny marks can make a big difference in your writing.

Essentially, writers are being punished for being good at their craft, and that is an alarming sentiment. In this instance, for example, em dashes are a particular trigger.

The em dash is just one of many things AI has stolen — sorry, “learned” — from people who do words for a living. I will admit to spiraling recently as I put “write a column about em ...

The em dash does not belong to ChatGPT The charge that AI-generated writing is full of em dashes is really the elegant mark being misunderstood—again ...

The em dash is everywhere, according to The Washington Post, because it’s ChatGPT’s favourite punctuation mark. Is that a new Turing test component: asking if AI prefers dashes or colons?

It's not even on a standard keyboard, unlike the shorter en dash. You have to make an effort to insert the em dash, and ChatGPT can input it far more quickly than a human.

Out of all these symbols, the em dash is a hallmark of a published source. Sometimes called a dramatic dash, long hyphen or em-rule, the symbol first appeared in the plays of Ben Jonson and can be ...

However, generally speaking, em dashes are not commonly used in everyday language, and, as a result, ChatGPT's constant gravitation towards them has made it almost a signature of its text. The ...

Cocogun creates new punctuation form to fight back against ChatGPT em dash mania as Johannes Gutenberg's descendants shudder.

It’s available in two new, tailored typefaces: Times New Human and Areal. For generations before generative text, writers have used the em dash to hop between thoughts, emotions, and ideas.

Australia-based agency Cocogun has cheekily introduced the ‘am dash’ as a replacement for the em dash which is quickly becoming a symbol of AI-powered writing and content creation.

Dash it! Have chatbots fallen for em dash? Writers, scholars debate AI’s telltale signs The more it appears, the higher the chance of the passage being generated by ChatGPT but that’s just a thought ...