ChatGPT was using it constantly — like so, and even if you begged it not to. As this observation traveled the internet, a weird consensus congealed: that humans do not use dashes. I am one; I am, even worse, a former proofreader who could speak at length and with passion about the uses of the narrower en dash. The dash is a time-honored and exceedingly normal tool for constructing sentences! And this kind of communication was different from our daily interaction with our peers: You talked to your peers, mostly.