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Related article via Hacker News:

…its sudden flood of appearances has become a telltale sign that an artificial intelligence platform such as ChatGPT may have written an e-mail, book or LinkedIn post. While writers have long turned to the em dash for dramatic flair or lively interruption, generative AI has taken that impulse and run with it − often in every other sentence.

As the use of such apps has skyrocketed in recent months, warnings of so-called “AI tells” have spread across online forums and social-media posts. More recently, however, those warnings have been met by a loud and proud contingent of em dash users. Writers on LinkedIn are talking confidently about “reclaiming the em dash,” referring to it as “our voice.” Others are more plaintive: “Original em dash users are having quite a hard time right now. I am one of them.”

Hear, hear!