I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...

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.

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 ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past few years, researchers have been exploring whether it’s even possible to ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis (THE CONVERSATION) People are now routinely ...