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.
