I Love the Em Dash–Too Bad If AI Does Too (thewalrus.ca)

Use an en-dash instead. – is slightly shorter than — so in–between words of—a–similar nature, you can look stylishly not–a–robot.

I concur — having added it as a third level symbol (AltGr + dash for em-dash, AltGr + Shift + dash for en-dash) to a default layout for Linux in early 2000s, it has become my signature of sorts.

If I am to be called out as an LLM, at least I can lay a claim I've been one for 20 years!

I do eschew one tradition surrounding it — the one of using no spaces around it — despite recommendations of different Manuals of Style and typographic norms. It simply looks better with more breathing room.

It’s a sad fact, but any writing i see with an Em Dash, I automatically assume was written by AI.

This caused an argument with my partner recently as she’s an avid Em Dash user… you can see where this is going.