Forget AGI—Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
GPT-5.1 introduces 8 customizable chat styles and reduces hallucinations to improve reliability, aiming to make AI conversations warmer and more empathetic for paid users.
- OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1 on ChatGPT, introducing it first to paid users under Pro, Plus, Go and Business plans.
- OpenAI says the update responds to user complaints by addressing criticism that GPT-5 felt colder than GPT-4o and begins a deeper push into customization and fine‑tuning features.
- The Instant variant is tuned for everyday chats and is described as warmer, more intelligent, and better at following instructions, according to OpenAI. Users can select from 8 personality presets in the ChatGPT personalization tab.
- Reviewers say the release could sway users away from competitors by combining warmth with stronger instruction‑following and reducing hallucinations for everyday conversational use cases.
- OpenAI confirmed planned upgrades to GPT-5 Pro soon, calling personalization the `next big frontier` and expecting competitors and the wider AI industry to follow very soon.
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Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules
Em dashes have become what many believe to be a telltale sign of AI-generated text over the past few years. The punctuation mark appears frequently in outputs from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, sometimes to the point where readers believe they can identify AI writing by its overuse alone—although people can overuse it, too. On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid usi…
OpenAI claims to have fixed ChatGPT's biggest problem, Sam Altman calls it ‘happy win’
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT can now follow user instructions to avoid using em-dashes. However, some users reported that the issue persisted by showing their chats with the AI chatbot.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT 5.1 and with this new version you can see an evolution that goes beyond the simple improvement in precision or speed.This latest update significantly changes how users ask questions and how artificial intelligence generates answers, with a clear objective: that the conversation feels more natural, more fluid and, above all, more intelligent.One of the great advances that has allowed this is due to contextual understan…
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