AI overuses the punctuation mark because of how it's trained and how it predicts text, researcher Mustafa Ocal explains.

When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty similar, although the meanings differ. You might throw in a hyphen to link two well-known words or add a dash—for impact, of course.

I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...