Princeton NLP researcher spots AI-written text instantly—by the em dashes
OfirPress · x · 2026-09-29
Ofir Press of Princeton NLP points out that an opening message was clearly AI-generated, and the giveaway is the em dashes. Long seen as a hallmark of LLM output, em dashes have become a go-to tell for spotting AI-ghostwritten text.
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