Over time, people have learned how to train ChatGPT out of using the em dash. You can tell it to “remember to never use an em ...

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, ...

Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular ...

Disclosure Day sees Spielberg reunited with Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp for a film based on an original story by ...

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 ...

AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I’ve been told that I use too many dashes. My high school AP Language and Composition teacher ...