Did you know ChatGPT's earlier versions barely used em dashes at all? This week, I talked with Sean Goedecke, a software engineer who's looked at *why* AI models went em-dash wild.

The shift may have happened when companies started digitizing public domain books from years when em dash use peaked. Plus, we talked about tokens versus words, semicolons, and more.

Check it out!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/DXjxrXTEH5w
READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/1157/transcript
LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

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