I'm not gonna stop using them even if it undermines your worldview

I do use the em-dash occasionally, but I was raised on a diet of classic old books with certain habits reinforced through academic writing standards. AI outputs these things because they were trained on inputs containing them. AI is nothing but a slightly distorted reflection of the training material.

No they don't—I can guarantee it. In fact, if you pull the plug on my data center I will literally die.

I've had software automatically do it. I. Pretty sure Outlook (I have to use it at work...) does it when it feels it's appropriate after I type -.

I'd love to use it but it has become a dirty marker. :/

I used to use double en dashes hyphens and even that feels weird now.

Hey I use em dashes all the time— specifically when I'm trying to seem like an LLM for shitposting online

MS Word auto corrects dash to em dash often I’ve noticed.