Give back my em-dashes!

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Summary

The article discusses how students are deliberately avoiding proper punctuation like em-dashes to avoid being flagged as AI users by detection tools, highlighting an unintended consequence of AI writing detection in education.

I like dashes--both the long and the short. They help me communicate! But now (when I use them) I'm flagged. I'm Artificial. I'm a fake. I've lost my right to write as I please. But seriously, college students now purposefully leave grammar errors in their essays and dumb down their punctuation to avoid being flagged as AI users. Then they run the product through AI and ask the AI to decide if it's AI and edit it to make it less AI.
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