Apparently, one of the ways you can tell if something has been written by AI is an overuse of the em dash. That's the elongated hyphen: "—".
This is because AI models tend to train on American writing, and Americans love an em dash.
It's putting some people off what is otherwise a very fine, very useful piece of punctuation
Managing editor of Te Herenga Waka University Press Ashleigh Young joins Emile Donovan to discuss the merits of the em dash and its friends: the comma, the semicolon, the ellipsis, and the period.
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