AINewsnow

Does AI Overuse the Em Dash? An Analysis of 88,927 AI Chats.

This story is from 2026-08-29. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

People always say AI overuses the em dash (—). It seems like they were right. The evidence from the article is: - Only 2% of user prompts contain an em dash, compared to 34% of LLM responses. - Em dash usage in U.S. published books peaked around 1979. From 2006-2022, usage declined to levels compar…

Read the full story at r/ChatGPT ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-08-29 23:13 · r/ChatGPT
    Does AI Overuse the Em Dash? An Analysis of 88,927 AI Chats.

More stories

  1. Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  2. Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  3. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
  4. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
  5. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools — r/LocalLLM
  6. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejects ‘AI will end the world’ claim, yet cautions ‘we should go as fast as we can but...’ — Mint AI
  7. Meet the Data Agent in ChatGPT Work — OpenAI YouTube
  8. AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack — Ars Technica AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →