AI and the — em dash

Finally, an explanation for why AI models can't seem to quit them.

This sentence — which I wrote from scratch without the help of AI — contains an em dash (actually two).

If you’ve been keeping up with the online discourse about AI writing, you may be surprised that I put an em dash in this post. That’s because so many human writers are steering away from this once-common punctuation mark, which is now viewed as a hallm…