Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It’s rare that a punctuation mark ...

I’m not here to just write about the em-dash, but let’s make one thing clear: AI uses the em-dash because humans have loved ...

You may now have to scrutinize what you read on the internet (and event on print) more closely to determine if it’s the product of AI. Sam Altman has revealed on X that if you tell ChatGPT not to use ...

If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real human authors of real books mostly didn't envision the foibles of AI chatbots. (Abhishek Chinnappa / Getty Images) Now ...

COLUMN. Le Monde's Guillemette Faure examines how the presence of the em dash in a text can reveal that its author relied on ...

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 ...

(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 ...

“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 ...