Comment by latexr
5 months ago
Because it’s becoming a common belief that any em-dash indicates LLM writing, and us people who regularly use em-dashes are attempting to show that is a poor signal on its own. The goal is to show proof of humans using it.
Or at least to have a baseline. If you see a sudden jump, that does tell you something.
Maybe it tells us that, thanks to AI, some folks learned about a perfectly useful piece of punctuation.