Professionally typeset publications, or word documents, or regular Internet comments written by iOS users—it converts double-dashes to em-dashes automatically.

Professionally typeset publications, or word documents, or regular Internet comments written by iOS users—it converts double-dashes to em-dashes automatically. I’m convinced most folks noticing this now just weren’t aware of the punctuation before they heard about it in the AI paranoia context. I’m also convinced a good chunk of Reddit comments are AI spam. But, I mean, we have to imagine anyone running an AI campaign knows to avoid the em-dashes by now.