ChatGPT's Em Dash Habit: A Training Artifact or Design Choice?

I like to use the em dash - especially for asides such as this - particularly because it’s less jarring than a parenthetical (which can often go off topic and interrupt the flow of the sentence).

Although I am too lazy to use actual em dashes because they’re not on my keyboard, it would generally be a good idea to send your text through a spell checker before adding it to your training data. I believe word and outlook fixes them automatically as well.

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