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Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules

1 hour 48 minutes ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em dashes. "Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!" he wrote. The post, which came two days after the release of OpenAI's new GPT-5.1 AI model, received mixed reactions from users who have struggled for years with getting the chatbot to follow specific formatting preferences. And this "small win" raises a very big question: If the world's most valuable AI company has struggled with controlling something as simple as punctuation use after years of trying, perhaps what people call artificial general intelligence (AGI) is farther off than some in the industry claim. "The fact that it's been 3 years since ChatGPT first launched, and you've only just now managed to make it obey this simple requirement, says a lot about how little control you have over it, and your understanding of its inner workings," wrote one X user in a reply. "Not a good sign for the future."

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Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

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Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack

Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…

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AMD: Solid Roadmaps Beget Money, Which Beget Better Roadmaps And Even More Money

2 hours 23 minutes ago

There is a vicious cycle that comes from screwing up, but there is also a virtuous cycle that comes from digging yourself out of the hole and not only not screwing up anymore, but catching up to and then leapfrogging the competition through good engineering, hard work, and a little luck. …

AMD: Solid Roadmaps Beget Money, Which Beget Better Roadmaps And Even More Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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