Dismissing text as ai because it has dashes is not going to work as well as you imagine. Some of us went to a real school. Just because you apparently did not is no reason to assume that sophisticated punctuation must be the work of ai.
Never, in all my school years (nor an in-depth study of Oxford english) have I ever seen an em dash used to separate a clause from the surrounding sentence. Maybe it's got something to do with Australians adhering to the monarch's English and not the 'standardised' US butchering of the language.
That's separating a clause from the sentence, used so that one might place a comma within the clause, as taught to me in year 5 or 6 english. One can use it regardless of commas as well.
Later on in high school, we learned that em dashes were reserved for special use cases in academic or technical papers, eg. I wouldn't use an em dash on reddit except maybe in a quote.
Where did I say 'this wasn't written by ai'? Have I challenged that anywhere?
I said 'hey, humans have been taught to write like that too'. Because... how do you think the bot learned it?
Is there anything else you'd like to attack me with?
Edit : Queensland Department of Education taught me that. It's not a US dept of 'ed'. Our education departments are there to guarantee a standard of education.
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