Generative AI and the War on Writing

Listen up, writers: No more em-dashes. Why? Because the internet said only ChatGPT uses them—the ChatGPT hyphen, as it's now called—and you don't want to be accused of using generative AI, do you? (Uh oh, looks like I'm guilty.)

As much as I wish there was a single indicator that a piece of writing is AI generated, it's just not that simple. So today, let's dive into where the em-dash myth started, why it's bogus, and all of its concerning implications. And maybe, just maybe, we'll come a little closer to a solution.

00:00 Intro
05:32 A Lesson on Dashes
10:08 Testing AI Chatbots
14:18 Testing AI Detectors
17:11 Illiteracy
19:28 Misunderstanding AI
22:46 A Culture of Suspicion
25:50 Caving to the Machine
31:42 In Conclusion

🤓SOURCES🤓
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-6...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/gramm...
https://www.indy100.com/news/em-dash-...

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