New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow
Another school district has banned AI from being used in the classroom by students across all grades. While this isn’t the first ban of its kind that we’ve seen, what’s interesting is that it was introduced just weeks after the district started piloting Google Gemini for older students. Frederick County became the latest school district to ban AI use in the classroom this week, voting 6-1 to restrict the technology from pre-K through 12th grade. Initially, the board considered only banning AI for younger students, but eventually extended the ban through high school.
You used an em dash in your post response. Its extremely rare for a human to do that, but extremely common for LLMs to do so.
I think you may misunderstand how LLMs operate? They generate output that is statistically likely. Things that aren’t well-represented in the training data aren’t well-represented in the output. And it’s very easy to type an em dash (unicode 2014) , especially on my iPad where two sequential dashes are automatically converted into an em dash.
See also: https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/pop-culture/em-dash-use-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini
It isn’t rare though? That’s why LLM’s do it so much. They have a multitude of examples in their training data.
I just think they’re neat.
I don’t want to give up perfectly good grammatical options to the machines. On iOS and macOS two dashes get switched to em dash, or alt+hyphen does, so they’re easy to type. You can also do en dashes, but I don’t really know when to use those.
I probably make too many typos to be a bot, but I guess that could be programmed in…