OpenAI says ChatGPT will now follow user instructions to avoid overusing the em dash more reliably. The change gives users better control over punctuation in outputs and addresses a stylistic pattern ...

If you have used AI to write any content, you must have noticed the excessive use of the em dash in the generated content. The use of these dashes by ChatGPT was so persistent that people started ...

With the rollout of OpenAI’s new GPT-5.1 model, users can finally instruct ChatGPT not to use em-dashes. If you’re tired of ChatGPT filling your responses with em-dashes, the long dash that has ...

AI's frequent use of em dashes is changing how people write. Many now avoid these punctuation marks to sound more human and ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they’re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...

OpenAI has not achieved its goal of developing a superintelligence or artificial general intelligence, nor has it cracked its planned construction of an autonomous “AI researcher.” But it has figured ...

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said on Friday that its AI chatbot ChatGPT should now follow user instructions to avoid em dashes, describing it as a “small but happy win”. (AFP) OpenAI chief ...

Writers complained that the chatbot's overuse of em dashes made them avoid the punctuation in their own writing. Other ChatGPT users had trouble getting the tool to stop using them.