US tech company OpenAI recently announced that users can now personalize settings to prevent ChatGPT from automatically using dashes in its output. In recent years, it has been observed that the frequent use of dashes in school essays, emails, comments, customer service conversations, LinkedIn posts, online forums, and advertising copy has become a notable characteristic of AI-generated text, sparking controversy. Some critics argue that this reflects over-reliance on AI and laziness on the part of writers.
