Viral posts and clips on social media suggest the em dash is the product of AI chatbots, with some calling the punctuation mark a 'ChatGPT hyphen.' ...

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not ...

Gen Z thinks they’ve figured out a dead giveaway that someone has used ChatGPT — and it might surprise you. The em dash is ...

While spaces aren’t required when using em dashes, Reed said she’s noticed it feels very ChatGPT-coded to leave them out. The ...

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has compiled information on the usage of the em dash (—), en dash (–), and hyphen (-) in English writing. Em dashes function like commas, colons ...

And that’s likely why it’s become a so-called “tell.” The em dash is ChatGPT’s default dash. Probably because it was trained ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using ...

In a viral clip, a woman believes a man she was talking to was utilizing ChatGPT to text her before their first date.

Updating Strunk and White. Link two thoughts with a semicolon, as in: He’s not even the real President; the other, even ...

So a Ugandan university student, a teacher, even a medical doctor, would only use American English or the Oxford comma if ...

Do not use a hyphen in place of "to" or "through," except in dates. A dash is expressed as an "em dash" ( — ) in printing, is expressed in plain text as two hyphens ( -- ) and is used in place of a ...