Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text ...

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The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...

Gboard has become a staple keyboard in the Android community due to the fact that Google has made it the default keyboard on Pixel devices. Much like other Google apps — looking at you, Google ...

People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their ...

Apps that purport to spot AI-generated text have a trust issue. The solution may be more transparency about what they find. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and ...

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered text generation feature in Notepad that can let Windows Insiders create content based on custom prompts. Dubbed "Write," the new Notepad feature is rolling out to ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is ...

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and ...

OpenAI has trained a new AI model that is "really good" at creative writing, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. He fed the model a prompt to "write a metafictional literary short story about AI and ...