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

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

A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, literary figures like Jane Austen used it too. Its presence in AI stems from ...

A writer-journalist friend was recently told that something he wrote felt like it was ChatGPT-coded. This was because of his liberal use of the em dash—that long punctuation mark which signals a ...

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

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

It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

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 ...