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em-dash is shift-option-hyphen on macOS, so it's not a good heuristic—I use it myself.

They're using en-dash which is even easier: option-hyphen.

This is the wrong way to do AI detection. For one, LLM would have used the right dash. But at least find someone wasting our time with belabored or overwrought text that doesn't even interact with anything.




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