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!

OpenAI has not achieved its goal of developing a superintelligence or artificial general intelligence, nor has it cracked its planned construction of an autonomous “AI researcher.” But it has figured ...

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 ...

People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they're used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared in a social media post that the company has now fixed ChatGPT’s overuse of the “em dash,” which is the extra-long hyphen that’s commonly seen in AI-generated text. In the ...

If you're reading something that was generated by AI, there may be signs. A chatbot might delve into or conceptualize or leverage a topic or overuse adjectives and transition words that humans rarely ...

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 ...