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Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?

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Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?

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Viral posts and clips on social media suggest the em dash is the product of AI chatbots, with some calling the punctuation mark a 'ChatGPT hyphen.'

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I often type double dashes – they collapse into an em-dash.

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