i think macos inserts those automatically if you do three dashes.

There is a key for — on my phone. Just hold down the - key and it pops up as an option. I use it all the time.

The emdash is a dead giveaway, but its mostly the high school level writing style.

It is astonishingly uncreative and simplistic with sentence structure, it just directly regurgitates the points from its prompt it was specifically directed to address, there's no clever or compelling phrasing or larger metaphor, there's no personality or expressiveness, willingness to say something maybe a bit edgy or controversial, very neutered and bland writing style... and there's no consecutive introduction of, then expanding on or synthesis of concepts, which are continually used after being explained and synthesized, progressively... instead, all the references are just mentioned, explained, addressed, discarded, onto the next one, like so many bullet points that need to be fluffed up to hit a word count.

Finally... did you intentionally prompt it to emulate the 'in this essay i will...' 'self contained, non referential body paragraphs' 'in conclusion, here's a few sentences that could have been the entire essay' ... did you intetionally tell it to mimic this extremely basic writing style?

Or did it just... do all of that on its own, like the mean average of five million highschool sophomore book reports?

My organic chemistry professor spent a solid 30 minutes explaining the difference between an em dash and an en dash so we could use them correctly in our lab reports. Then ended his little lecture with saying "They're in the special character menu of your word processor. Unless you're on Mac, then I suggest googling them."

I don't think any of us used either dash, but I'm just sad no one called him on his BS lol

My laptop can do the — when I press AltGr and -

I think the best tell that this is AI generated is the — character. There's not even a key on the keyboard for that.

Then you must have a really crappy keyboard.