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AI made me eliminate 'em dashes' from my writing: OpenAI Chairman
short by Vaishnavi Mishra / on Friday, 17 July, 2026
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor expressed frustration over AI-generated text's overuse of "em dashes". "I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signalling slop," Taylor said. Reacting to this, Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla, said, "Many other legitimate…language constructs are suddenly and somewhat arbitrarily super awkward and cringe."
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