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 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 ...

For centuries – or at least since the era of Virginia Woolf – the em dash has carved out a proud if unruly place in English prose. But now, for the crime of being favoured by writers for its many ...

It's not often that you derive a column from a Twitter thread. But though it's a first for me, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to a tweeter who calls himself (or herself) “The Cultural Tutor” ...

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 ...