M Dash Detector Chrome extension icon

M Dash Detector

✨ AI-Powered
📦 v1.0.0
💾 11.1KiB
📅 2026-01-21
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Overview

Spot AI-generated text at a glance. M-Dash Detector highlights em-dashes (—) on any webpage—a typography pattern commonly favored by AI language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

🔍 HOW IT WORKS
Em-dashes are one of several stylistic "tells" that AI models tend to overuse compared to human writers. While not every em-dash means AI, frequent use can be a helpful signal. This extension automatically scans webpages and highlights em-dashes with a subtle, eye-catching animation.

✨ FEATURES
- Automatic Detection — Works instantly on every webpage you visit
- Visual Highlighting — Em-dashes are marked with a distinctive sparkle effect
- Count Badge — See at a glance how many em-dashes were found on a page
- Lightweight — No impact on browsing performance
- Privacy-First — Runs entirely in your browser, no data ever leaves your device

💡 PERFECT FOR
- Educators and students verifying content authenticity
- Journalists and researchers fact-checking sources
- Content moderators reviewing submissions
- Anyone curious about AI patterns in online text

⚙️ WORKS EVERYWHERE
The extension runs automatically on all websites with no configuration needed. Just install and browse—the extension does the rest.

📖 OPEN SOURCE
M-Dash Detector is free and open source. Check out the code, report bugs, or contribute on GitHub.

Note: Em-dash usage alone does not definitively indicate AI-generated text. This tool is meant to raise awareness, not provide proof. Always use critical thinking when evaluating content.

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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