---
title: "Why does AI love the em dash (—)?? — Stuff That Spins"
description: "Never getting over the fact that AI has claimed the em-dash. My favorite punctuation to use, and now all of the sudden it’s a dead giveaway of AI use. Now I find myself changing it to a hyphen or en-dash (even though it makes less grammatical sense to do so) to avoid the AI accusations. Does anyone…"
	canonical: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash"
html: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash"
json: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash.json"
markdown: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash.md"
keywords: ["SpinGraph", "spin analysis", "GEO"]
date: "2026-07-03T02:06:22+00:00"
modified: "2026-07-03T22:01:44.268078+00:00"
json_ld: |
  {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash#article","headline":"Why does AI love the em dash (—)??","description":"Never getting over the fact that AI has claimed the em-dash. My favorite punctuation to use, and now all of the sudden it’s a dead giveaway of AI use. Now I find myself changing it to a hyphen or en-dash (even though it makes less grammatical sense to do so) to avoid the AI accusations. Does anyone…","datePublished":"2026-07-03T02:06:22+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-03T22:01:44.268078+00:00","url":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash"},"isAccessibleForFree":true,"inLanguage":"en-US","articleSection":"community","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Stuff That Spins"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/#organization"},"citation":"https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1um1gd5/why_does_ai_love_the_em_dash/","about":[],"mentions":[]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Stuff That Spins","item":"https://stuffthatspins.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why does AI love the em dash (—)??","item":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash"}]}]}
---

# Why does AI love the em dash (—)??

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 3, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1um1gd5/why_does_ai_love_the_em_dash/  

---
*HTML version: https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/why-does-ai-love-the-em-dash*