Grammar columnist and expert June Casagrande dives into why we use the em dash and the AI myths associated with it.

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.

AI is brilliant at polishing and rephrasing. But like a child with glitter glue, you still need to supervise it.

In the age of A.I. paranoia, people are cutting em dashes, skipping metaphors, and leaving in typos to show their human.

Columnist Maria Vazquez argues when detecting AI usage, we risk erasing the very elements that make writing human — voice and ...

Given such poor performance, why do so many people believe that em dashes are a clear tell for chatbots? Perhaps it’s because this form of punctuation is primarily employed by experienced writers. In ...

Hyphen, en dash, and em dash are punctuation marks that connect words or phrases. They may look similar, but they serve different purposes in writing and formatting.