If you’ve ever used AI for writing, or had to determine if something was written by AI, you'll know that some people now consider the em dash a telltale sign of AI use. OpenAI has now stepped in to ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared in a social media post that the company has now fixed ChatGPT’s overuse of the “em dash,” which is the extra-long hyphen that’s commonly seen in AI-generated text. In 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, ...

The em dash has long been a favorite punctuation mark of writers everywhere. This lengthier dash can replace a comma or a colon. It’s also sometimes used to sum up info at the end of the sentence, to ...

I have been testing ChatGPT since it launched in November 2022 and have seen updates improve its writing capabilities. However, fairly recently, I noticed a pattern in ChatGPT's output -- the repeated ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...

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 ...