It's a "small but happy victory." OpenAI's Sam Altman confirms the fix for the infamous ChatGPT em dash. The tech company now gives users control over its most criticized punctuation symbol.

Many writers complained about how the chatbot’s overuse of em-dashes made them avoid it in their own writing. Other ChatGPT ...

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 ...

Altman says ChatGPT will now avoid the em dash if it's explicitly told to do so. ・With the proliferation of AI-generated and ...

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...

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

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

In a new personalization update, OpenAI says that ChatGPT will now respect your instruction to avoid using em-dashes when set in custom preferences. This might look trivial, but it marks a deeper ...

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 ...

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

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 ...