In a move that addresses a long-standing complaint about its writing style, OpenAI has announced that its AI model, ChatGPT, will now comply with user instructions to avoid using em dashes. This ...
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 ...