{"id":141657,"date":"2025-11-15T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141657\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:48:07","slug":"openai-says-chatgpt-will-listen-if-you-tell-it-not-to-use-em-dashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141657\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says ChatGPT will listen if you tell it not to use em dashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">You may now have to scrutinize what you read on the internet (and event on <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/1owvb8i\/now_news_are_written_by_ai_in_newspapers\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:print;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">print<\/a>) more closely to determine if it\u2019s the product of AI. Sam Altman has <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/1989193813043069219\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:revealed on X;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">revealed on X<\/a> that if you tell <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/openai-is-piloting-group-conversations-in-chatgpt-053255102.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:ChatGPT;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a> not to use em dashes in your custom instructions, the chatbot will now finally listen to you. Previously, ChatGPT would ignore your instruction and continue using em dashes even if you tell it not to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">People are treating the presence of em dashes, especially if they\u2019re used in abundance, as one of the biggest tells if something was written by large language models. Of course, just because a piece of text uses em dashes doesn\u2019t mean it was actually written by AI, but people have become suspicious of any writing that uses the punctuation mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">It\u2019s not quite clear while generative AI models have the tendency to pepper the text they generate with em dashes. LLMs are trained on a vast number of books and online content, such as scientific papers, posts on public forums and articles like this. It\u2019s possible that punctuation mark appears so often in training materials and isn\u2019t flagged by AI trainers as something that the LLM should avoid using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may now have to scrutinize what you read on the internet (and event on print) more closely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,81429,61,60,7689,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-141657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-em-dashes","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sam-altman","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}