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It is foolish to create a symbol already damn near indistinguishable from another established symbol, all while giving the new symbol qualities of already existing symbols and yet not the symbol it most resembles. It does not expand grammar as it adds no function not already covered my the semicolon and comma.
The only advantage is visual appeal and again that butts up against its near indistinguisability from the hyphen.
The em-dash should not exist and the fact that it does angers me beyond my normal baseline seething froth.
I'm confused. Isn't this about the AI using existing correct typography, that was not very common? It doesn't add anything new. I don't see how that connects to my comment. Or what you think is an opinion about correctness here.
Also, the /s indicates sarcasm, so it's not like my original comment was meant to be taken very seriously. If your issue is with the existing typography being used more.
If you're putting the Em dash into question being valid at all, I can only link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash Whether it's existence is a good thing or not. That's a different question vs correctness/existence and definition.