[Iulioh]

I never saw a human use it in something different from literature. That's where I think the chatbots got it.

[subarctic]

I use it sometimes, although I'll probably stop now that I keep hearing it's too associated with ai. It's easy to enter though on Mac it's just option shift hyphen

[vjulian]

I write for a living and read literature at university. I find it odd that you’ve never encountered an em dash in common writing.

[MangoToupe]

> I never saw a human use it in something different from literature.

This is nuts! Do you not read much prose written by other humans?

[Iulioh]

I have and had a reddit addiction since my early teens and I read a lot of whatever I can on the internet.

Books and scientific papers are the only places I see it used

And it makes sense that the AI is prioritizing it as these sources should weigh more