Punctuation can be like spices in food. They flavor and enhance the dish, but too much can overwhelm the blend and ruin the meal. The em dash has always been like sumac: a great, complex flavor in its ...

The em dash, one of the most versatile punctuation marks in English, has become widely associated with AI-generated text ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identity has never been an issue for Ad Nut. With a day split between sorting, hoarding, and consuming nuts, berries and other woodland delicacies, and escaping the attention of murderous beasts, Ad ...