Writers complained that the chatbot's overuse of em dashes made them avoid the punctuation in their own writing. Other ...

Controlling punctuation is a main concern for users who depend on ChatGPT for professional, academic, or publishing tasks.

In a new personalization update, OpenAI says that ChatGPT will now respect your instruction to avoid using em-dashes when set ...

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

Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has fixed the problem. In a post on X, Altman writes, “If you tell ChatGPT not to ...

Sam Altman recently announced a significant update to ChatGPT: it no longer forces users to incorporate em dashes in their ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they’re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if ...

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 ...

ChatGPT now follows custom instructions to reduce em-dash overuse. Here’s why it matters, what to expect and five simple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...