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 ...

If you spend any time online, you know the em dash has seen a resurgence like no other punctuation mark. Sometimes in the middle of the sentence, sometimes in the end, mostly everywhere. For a couple ...

In a world where artificial general intelligence (AGI) often steals the spotlight, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has taken a moment to celebrate a seemingly minor yet significant achievement. The company’s ...

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 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 ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman sparked a lively conversation online after revealing that ChatGPT had finally learned to follow a long pending user instruction. Altman shared a brief update on X, ...

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, ...

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Em dashes have become what many believe to be a telltale sign of AI-generated text over the past few years. The punctuation mark appears frequently in outputs from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, ...

I’ve been teaching English for more than twenty years, long enough to watch punctuation trends come and go like fashion. The Oxford comma had its civil war. The semicolon had its fall from grace. But ...