OpenAI has fixed ChatGPT's infamous 'em dash' obsession (somewhat)

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The em dash is seen by some as a dead giveaway of AI-generated text, mainly because ChatGPT loves to use it. 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 past, ChatGPT was overzealous in its use of the em dash, to the point where it'd continue to include them even when users asked it not to. Now, with the fix, a user can instruct ChatGPT to not use em dashes and it will respect the instruction.