I spend a considerable part of my day behind a keyboard writing news stories, and over the past few years, I’ve adopted many different writing styles — the most recent of which integrates em dashes.
While scrolling through social media, I’ve bumped into a ton of posts claiming that em dashes are synonymous with AI-generated content from tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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