AI – Media Shower

If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you know I utilize em dashes even more frequently than I reference TVTropes—and why wouldn’t I? You’re telling me there’s a mid-sentence punctuation mark that works for separating both dependent and independent clauses? A mark that can also function as a louder parenthesis if placed on either side of a word or phrase? And—unlike the semicolon—it doesn’t have a reputation for being bizarrely intimidating? The em dash is an English major’s dream come true.

Sadly, this short horizontal line has started to develop its own stigma: the widespread notion that its presence automatically denotes AI-generated content.