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!

Maybe you know how it is. You’re rocking along — being and doing you — and suddenly you become a symbol — a meme — an item of ridicule — an arrow pointing to a bot. You don’t know how that is? Lucky ...

Following countless user complaints, OpenAI announced on Friday that it had solved one of the most talked-about problems in its artificial intelligence system: the frequent use of the em dash. Now, ...

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 ...

The Mac keyboard doesn’t offer em and en dash symbols. Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t use them. The easiest way to type an en dash (–) or em dash (—)on a Mac is by using a simple keyboard shortcut.

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and ...