Is This a ChatGPT Hyphen — or Just Good Writing?: Dave Lee

As the sophistication of artificial intelligence increases, and we become more disbelieving of our own eyes and ears, it stands to reason that we’ll also grow paranoid that others will think our own hard work is in fact the product of AI.

For example, I was disturbed to learn recently that a growing number of people seem to think the use of the em dash — that short line that allows me to make asides like this one — is evidence of a fraudster. ChatGPT uses the em dash liberally, so it has become a tell.

Things have become so ...