Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now 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 you’ve let your favorite robot sidekick dress your words up in AI drag, and just like a bad wig reveal in the third act of RuPaul’s Drag Race, it can be… a little too much. Let me set the scene: You’re writing a heartfelt email to…
