> What LLMs also do though, is use em-dashes like this (imagine that "--" is an em-dash here): "So, when you read my work--when you see our work--what are you really seeing?"

>You see? LLMs often use em-dashes without spaces before and after, as a period replacement.

It would not make any sense at all to use periods in the places where those em-dashes are supposedly "replacing" periods in the example.