OpenAI released a 2025 recap rundown called "Your Year with ChatGPT," which tells users which day they chatted the most and ...
The type of dash you prefer is ultimately a style choice, but many style guides recommend the em dash for enclosing clauses ...
The thing is, the phrase “no fluff” is intrinsically fluff, and many Redditors have expressed distaste in how often it’s used ...
AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and less robotic. This trend highlights a new anxiety around writing, as perfect ...
It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...
AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...
Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular ...