Ryan Dohrn says AI-generated emails often contain em dashes, a tell that humans rarely use. He recommends telling your AI tool to use hyphens instead and skip the em dashes to make the text less obviously machine-written.
It's a dead giveaway when you're using AI if you send an email to somebody that includes those long em dashes. ChatGPT is notorious for this. It'll polish up an email for you and then they'll send the email to you and it's got like a long dash in it. That technically is called an em dash, E-M, like an em dash. Well, that's a dead giveaway you're using AI because AI does that all of the time and most humans don't. Now, if you don't like those long dashes, I definitely don't, you wanna use the phrase in the new chat box, when you do work for me, please do not use an em dash. Hyphens are fine, but em dashes, definitely don't want you to do that.
