Many writers complained about how the chatbot’s overuse of em-dashes made them avoid it in their own writing. Other ChatGPT ...

OpenAI has not achieved its goal of developing a superintelligence or artificial general intelligence, nor has it cracked its ...

A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, literary figures like Jane Austen used it too. Its presence in AI stems from ...

Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT finally stops using em dashes when users ask it not to, fixing one of the AI’s most ...

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...

Novelist Cormac McCarthy has spent twenty years editing what feels like the opposite of a novel: scientific papers by faculty members and postdocs at the Santa Fe Institute. Some of the scientists he ...

For some writers, the em dash had become tarnished because it could indicate ChatGPT use — could an OpenAI update help it ...

The em dash (—) is a supremely useful (and fashionable) piece of punctuation used in writing and editing, often in place of a comma, colon, or parenthesis. While you might want to utilize it to make ...

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, stated on X that ChatGPT will refrain from using em dashes when a user specifies this preference in their Custom Instructions. “It finally does what it’s supposed to do,” he ...