If you've used ChatGPT — or seen AI-generated text — you've likely spotted an em dash. The punctuation mark is not new, but it has been flung into the forefront of social media and everyday writing ...

Other redditors pointed out the irony of the situation: AI draws from high-quality human writing, so good writers are ...

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!

The humble em dash has become collateral damage in the war on machine writing. Suddenly, this legitimate piece of punctuation ...

ChatGPT doesn’t ruin credibility because of em dashes. It ruins credibility through unearned authority. Here's how to ...

I have been reading posts about em dashes lately. Some criticize their use, while others defend them, especially when they appear in content assumed to be artificial intelligence (AI)-generated. Maybe ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman sparked a lively conversation online after revealing that ChatGPT had finally learned to follow a long pending user instruction. Altman shared a brief update on X, ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Nobody loves an em-dash more than I do — I put an em-dash on ...

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 ...

When it comes to proper punctuation, choosing between an exclamation point and a question mark is child’s play. The semicolon-vs.-colon decision is a bit tougher to make. But even that can’t compare ...