There is a punctuation mark that Emily Dickinson used obsessively, that Mary Shelley deployed with abandon, that David Foster Wallace built an entire prose architecture around, and that James Baldwin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It’s rare that a punctuation mark ...

PCWorld explores how human writing can exhibit AI-like characteristics, with an author using Claude Sonnet 4.6 to analyze ...

PCWorld explores how human writing can exhibit AI-like characteristics, using Claude Sonnet 4.6 to analyze writing patterns ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

The em dash — that long, elegant punctuation mark used to create a dramatic pause, seen on either side of this clause — used to be a sign of a thoughtful writer, but instead it's become a common ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they're used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...