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, ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen Z ChatGPT giveaway Gen Z thinks they’ve figured out a dead giveaway that someone has used ChatGPT — and it might surprise you.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...