ChatGPT is being freed from its 'signature' long dash

OpenAI has introduced a new update to ChatGPT, ridding the model of its habit of inserting long dashes, which have long become a visual 'signature' of AI texts.

Sam Altman noted that it is enough to specify a prohibition either in the prompt or in the general instructions, and the model should take the wish into account. Although some note that ChatGPT may still break the rule, the system is gradually becoming more flexible and attentive to stylistic details.

Altman did not explain why the neural network stubbornly clung to this symbol. The reason is probably that the long dash was often found in the source data: journalists and authors actively used it long before the era of AI.