Controlling punctuation is a main concern for users who depend on ChatGPT for professional, academic, or publishing tasks.

Writers complained that the chatbot's overuse of em dashes made them avoid the punctuation in their own writing. Other ...

The dreaded em-dash is one of the biggest giveaways of AI-generated writing. Chatbots love to use it for some reason, ...

A debate surrounds the em dash, dubbed the 'ChatGPT hyphen'. Gen Z and social media users link it to AI content. However, literary figures like Jane Austen used it too. Its presence in AI stems from ...

OpenAI has not achieved its goal of developing a superintelligence or artificial general intelligence, nor has it cracked its ...

It’s rare that a punctuation mark becomes grist for the online rumor mill. But recently, an uptick in focus on AI and its impacts has brought a Blake Lively-esque level of attention to the em dash, ...

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 ...

Today in the New York Times' Opinionator blog there's a love letter of sorts from Ben Yagoda, author and professor of English at the University of Delaware, to the dash. Not the em-dash, in particular ...

Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using punctuation ...