Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
August 25, 2025
Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the ‘EM dash,’ that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to drop in your sentences like it’s getting paid per dash. Seriously, it’s the AI version of jazz hands.
You may not notice it, but most everyone else does. It’s the dead giveaway that…