If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

On November 14, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media, “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

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 ...

The humble em dash has become collateral damage in the war on machine writing. Suddenly, this legitimate piece of punctuation is being treated as the literary equivalent to six fingers. Never mind ...

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 ...

Other redditors pointed out the irony of the situation: AI draws from high-quality human writing, so good writers are essentially being penalized for having their style co-opted. They argue that ...

It's about to become harder to spot when someone has used ChatGPT. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said the chatbot would no longer use the em dash — a hallmark of its writing style — if a user ...

If you're reading something that was generated by AI, there may be signs. A chatbot might delve into or conceptualize or leverage a topic or overuse adjectives and transition words that humans rarely ...

The first method by which you can make an Em Dash in Google Docs is using the Google Docs Special characters chart. The following instructions will help you with that: You can also insert an EM Dash ...