The Em-Dash Debacle

If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the last year or so, you’re probably familiar with what I am calling the “Em-Dash Debacle”. In case you missed it, the core issue is this: LLMs tend to generate a lot of em-dashes in their text output. Most people do not write with proper em-dashes these days. People (at least english speaking people) write with a lot of dashes, but they tend to actually…