Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.

There are dozens of us.

Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…

you might like these

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466

(a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz.

(b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.

not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.