Controlling punctuation is a main concern for users who depend on ChatGPT for professional, academic, or publishing tasks.

The extra-long hyphen known as the em dash is common in AI-generated text. While some writers have responded by choosing to avoid the punctuation mark, others are fighting back.

Sam Altman announces a major ChatGPT update that finally fixes em-dash formatting issues and brings smoother, cleaner writing ...

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

The "em dash" is seen by some as a dead giveaway of AI-generated text, mainly because ChatGPT loves to use it.

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

I’ve been teaching English for more than twenty years, long enough to watch punctuation trends come and go like fashion. The Oxford comma had its civil war. The semicolon had its fall from grace. But ...

Gwen Egan is a digital producer at Globe Opinion. AI writing is everywhere — emails, college essays, even wedding vows — and it’s becoming increasingly important to be able to detect when a piece of ...

OpenAI chief Sam Altman has announced ChatGPT, the widely used AI platform, can ditch the em-dashes if instructed by users.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...