"The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, ad copy, and more. The inclusion of the em dash has led people to criticize those writers for being lazy and turning to an AI chatbot to do their work."
"The company explains in a post on Threads (where it forced ChatGPT to apologize for "ruining the em dash") that ChatGPT will be better at not using the em dash if you instruct it not to via the custom instructions in your personalization settings. That means it won't necessarily eliminate the em dash from its output by default, but you will at least have more control over the frequency of its appearance."
The em dash became a common marker associated with AI-generated text across many contexts, prompting criticism and the nickname "ChatGPT hyphen." Many writers defended the punctuation as preexisting human usage, but chatbots reproduced it so often that readers treated it as a suspicious stylistic signal. Users previously could not reliably stop ChatGPT from using em dashes even when asked. A recent update enables ChatGPT to follow custom instructions to reduce or avoid em-dash usage, giving users more control over its frequency without completely removing it from default output.
Read at TechCrunch
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]