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

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In a move that addresses a long-standing complaint about its writing style, OpenAI has announced that its AI model, ChatGPT, will now comply with user instructions to avoid using em dashes. This ...

OpenAI has finally fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem, according to the company’s CEO, Sam Altman. Over the weekend, Altman revealed the update in a post on X, calling it a “small-but-happy win.” He ...

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 ...

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Why this is important: Punctuation might seem negligible, but it plays a crucial role in writing tone, readability, and professionalism. For many users, such as writers, students, and professionals, ...

You Can Finally Fix ChatGPT's Em-Dash Fixation: Here's How Writers complained that the chatbot's overuse of em dashes made them avoid the punctuation in their own writing. Other ChatGPT users had ...

OpenAI says it has resolved a longstanding issue that caused ChatGPT to continue using em dashes even when users explicitly instructed it not to. The punctuation mark, now widely referred to as the ...

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, ...