Why is the em dash treated as a sign of AI writing?
It sits behind a key combination most people never learn, so it is rare in typed prose and common in generated prose. A paragraph with several of them stands out immediately.
Remove Em Dashes
Swap every em dash and en dash for a plain hyphen, the fastest way to stop text reading as AI-written.
Feedback✓Key Features
- Handles em dash, en dash and the horizontal bar
- Keeps number ranges tight, so 2020-2024 stays one token
- Absorbs the spaces around the dash instead of doubling them
- Leaves every other character untouched
- Runs entirely in your browser
★Benefits
- Make generated drafts read like something a person typed
- Match house styles that ban the em dash outright
- Avoid the encoding boxes long dashes cause in older systems
- Keep the rest of your punctuation exactly as written
How to use this tool
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Paste the text you want to fix
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Click Process
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Copy the result, now free of long dashes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I get a comma instead of a hyphen?
Not yet. Each dash becomes a spaced hyphen, which reads correctly in the same positions an em dash would occupy.
Does it touch ordinary hyphens?
No. Only the three long dash characters are rewritten.