Sam Altman says OpenAI has finally fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem, gets fact-checked

When ChatGPT first launched in late 2022, the big debate was how one woud differentiate between AI written and human written content. Since then, users have found out that AI tools leave a lot of tells that clearly differentiate them from human content and perhaps the most prominent among them is the excessive use of em-dashes.

The problem that occured with ChatGPT and other AI tools continued to perist even when users told the AI specifically to not use em dashes. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says that the company has fixed the problem and if users tell ChatGPT to not use dashes, it would follow those instructions.

“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!” Altman announced in a post on X.

When we told ChatGPT to not use em dashes in its responses, the chatbot finally gave a response which did't contain dashes.

“Got it! I’ll stick to responses without em dashes from here on.” it wrote back

However, many users in reaction to Altman's own post revealed that ChatGPT was continuing to answer with dashes in its reponses.

Some other users claimed that ChatGPT was listed Joe Biden as the President of United States, highlighting the problem of hallucination that has marred AI chatbots since a long time.

OpenAI brings group chats to ChatGPT:

Meanwhile, OpenAI also announced today that it is bringing Group Chats to ChatGPT, revealing a social component to the popular chatbot. The feature works similar to WhatsApp Groups but users now also have ChatGPT in those conversations to act as mediator or explore new things together.

Users can share a link with their find and up to 20 people can join through that. However, the feature is still in pilot stage and OpenAI is only rolling it out to select markets at first with plans to bring broader coverage in the future.

This is not the first time that OpenAI has aimed to enter into a different category. Just a few weeks back, it had also launched the AI generated social media app called Sora which allowed users to generate and share AI generated short form videos similar to Instagram Reels or TikTok. The company also launched its AI browser called Atlas for Mac users last month, to take on the likes of Google Chrome, Brave and Comet.