You may now have to scrutinize what you read on the internet (and event on print) more closely to determine if it’s the product of AI. Sam Altman has revealed on X that if you tell ChatGPT not to use ...

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 ...

The em dash, one of the most versatile punctuation marks in English, has become widely associated with AI-generated text since 2024. The accusation reveals less about artificial intelligence than ...

It's about to become harder to spot when someone has used ChatGPT. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said the chatbot would no longer use the em dash — a hallmark of its writing style — if a user ...

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 ...

In a move that addresses a long-standing complaint about its writing style, OpenAI has announced that its AI model, ChatGPT, will now comply with user instructions to avoid using em dashes. This ...

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 ...