Defund the em dash police

I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.

The em dash has become an unexpected flashpoint in the AI discourse, with Gen Zers calling it the “ChatGPT hyphen,” a supposed tell of ChatGPT-generated writing.