Inside the unofficial movement to save the em dash — from A.I.

The extra-long hyphen known as the em dash is common in AI-generated text. While some writers have responded by choosing to avoid the punctuation mark, others are fighting back.

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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 actually write. And it might set them off with the elongated hyphen known as the em dash.

SUSAN LOVETT: It’s like it’s the only piece of punctuation they’ve learned other

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