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!

In a world where artificial general intelligence (AGI) often steals the spotlight, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has taken a moment to celebrate a seemingly minor yet significant achievement. The company’s ...

Why this is important: Punctuation might seem negligible, but it plays a crucial role in writing tone, readability, and professionalism. For many users, such as writers, students, and professionals, ...

The em dash — that long, elegant punctuation mark used to create a dramatic pause, seen on either side of this clause — used to be a sign of a thoughtful writer, but instead it's become a common ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An em dash in a gold frame. Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK It's rare that a punctuation mark ...

As AI-generated content takes over the internet, humans are becoming more and more vigilant about differentiating bot-written copy from genuine human writing. Last week, LinkedIn even became the first ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

But there is something far worse that LLMs are doing: They are taking away the em dash (—) , the pride and joy of writers everywhere. There was a time when I used the em dash for everything: texts to ...

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 ...

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 ...