ChatGPT fixes one of its biggest problems, Sam Altman calls it ‘small but …’

OpenAI has addressed ChatGPT's notorious overuse of em dashes, allowing users to instruct the chatbot to avoid them via custom settings. This fix, arriving with the GPT-5.1 model, ends years of user complaints and highlights the challenges in controlling AI language models, suggesting true artificial general intelligence may be further off than anticipated.

ChatGPT fixes one of its biggest problems, Sam Altman calls it ‘small but …’
OpenAI has addressed ChatGPT's notorious overuse of em dashes, allowing users to instruct the chatbot to avoid them via custom settings. This fix, arriving with the GPT-5.1 model, ends years of user complaints and highlights the challenges in controlling AI language models, suggesting true artificial general intelligence may be further off than anticipated.