OSX makes it easy to write em-dashes. It's much more annoying on Windows. I wonder if more innocuous assistants like Grammarly also insert them?

Ditto the directional "smart quotes", OSX inserts them by default (and sometimes breaks stuff like pasting json into Slack).

There certainly are a lot of them in the article.

Yes, super easy. Just shift-option-dash. But I wouldn't do it as people will just assume you're using an AI.

Smart quotes? I hardly even remember that. I turn that off immediately, along with automatic spell checks (which are a headache if you switch between languages).