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Is ChatGPT Changing the Way We Write?

How did we go from Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare to 'the ChatGPT hyphen'?
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Teodosia Dobriyanova
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From left to right:a  collage shows the portraits of Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Laurence Sterne against a pale green background with the ChatGPT name and logo floating around. Caption reads: "Death of the em-dash?"
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Generative AI is doing a lot of harm – environmental, privacy-related, potentially even affecting the brain activity of those who use it all too often. So the demise of a punctuation mark may seem to pale in comparison, but this doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter. In this video, we explore whether ChatGPT is killing the em-dash, its centuries-old tradition in English writing, and what the future of the 'ChatGPT hyphen' could look like.

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Teodosia Dobriyanova
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Teodosia is a video producer at Mashable UK, focussing on stories about climate resilience, urban development, and social good.


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