The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...

I don’t talk much here about the en dash — the little punctuation mark that looks like it can’t decide if it’s a hyphen or a full-fledged dash. There are a couple of reasons I avoid the subject. For ...

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...

・Altman says ChatGPT will now avoid the em dash if it's explicitly told to do so. ・With the proliferation of AI-generated and AI-edited text, many readers have come to assume that frequent em dashes ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...