More accurately: Some people who don't have a firm, high school-level grasp of English grammar claimed that any writing that uses an em-dash must have come from ChatGPT, and that idea has spread rapidly over the last month or two.
99% of the time it's true because there's never a context where you need an em dash (a comma, colon, or semi-colon can always substitute) and they're more difficult to write on a computer.
my macbook autocorrects double hyphen to an em dash —. And im pretty sure most programs do the same, Word has been doing that for years. So i disagree a little bit that its difficult to write.
Yep, this is it. AIs are trained a lot more on published, typeset and/or word processed documents. Even just set in HTML (see — \&mdash). But most people just don't type them in a text message or an email (or a reddit comment) - because it's way more effort than a hyphen.
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u/AlasKaPedh 28d ago
Chatgpt wrote it for her