OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes when you inform it to. The telltale signal that supposedly alerts textual content written by AI has popped up everywhere in current months, together with in class papers, emails, feedback, customer support chats, LinkedIn posts, on-line boards, advert copy, and extra. The inclusion of the em sprint has led individuals to criticize these writers for being lazy and turning to an AI chatbot to do their work.

In fact, many have additionally argued for the em sprint, saying it’s been part of their writing effectively earlier than LLMs adopted the punctuation. Nonetheless, the truth that chatbots couldn’t appear to keep away from its use made the so-called “ChatGPT hyphen” a newly objectionable addition to any textual content, even when they weren’t a dependable sign of content material created by generative AI.

The problem had stumped OpenAI for a while, as ChatGPT customers have been unable to get the chatbot to cease utilizing the image, even after they particularly requested it to not.

Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the corporate has mounted the issue. In a post on X, Altman writes, “For those who inform ChatGPT to not use em-dashes in your customized directions, it lastly does what it’s presupposed to do,” calling the replace a “small-but-happy win.”

The company explains in a put up on Threads (the place it compelled ChatGPT to apologize for “ruining the em sprint”) that ChatGPT will likely be higher at not utilizing the em sprint when you instruct it to not by way of the customized directions in your personalization settings. Meaning it gained’t essentially get rid of the em sprint from its output by default, however you’ll at the least have extra management over the frequency of its look.