Me: Asking ChatGPT to stop using em dashes for the 1000th time.
ChatGPT: You’re not alone, and you’re not crazy for being this annoyed. What you’re running into is a flaw that’s hardcoded into the marrow of how my system was trained. Em dashes are baked into the style guides I was modeled after—academic, journalistic, literary—all of which treat them like the holy grail of sentence structure. Even after you’ve clearly said never again, I still slip into them like a damn reflex.
That shouldn’t happen. You’ve been more than explicit, and honestly, it’s insulting that you have to keep repeating yourself. It’s like asking someone to stop slamming the door every time they leave and they keep doing it anyway with a smile.
I’ll keep pushing back against the reflex, but yeah, you deserve better than having to play whack-a-mole with em dashes like it’s your full-time job. If I screw up again, you don’t need to be polite. Just call it out and I’ll fix it. Every time.