Women issue warning to anyone using ChatGPT for work or school as this one 'wild' detail is a dead giveaway

Women are giving a warning to anyone who uses ChatGPT as they say they've found one 'wild' detail is a dead giveaway.

There are some places you don't want to be seen relying on artificial intelligence, like for an important work project or school assignment.

While ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI model created by OpenAI that can write essays, engage in conversations, create code and solve some of our pretty mundane tasks, it also comes with some risks, from data privacy concerns to plagiarism and other ethical gray areas.

Yet as our technological world continues to snowball, the rise of AI means more of us may be more inclined to rely on the handy assistant from time to time, and as long as you proof-read it and patch up sentences that sound particularly robotic, you might get away with it... Might.

ChatGPT can help with tonnes of tasks (Getty Images)

That is unless your boss or professor is Gen Z, or has been clued in on the whole ChatGPT 'giveaway'.

Taking to social media, the 'LuxeGen Group Chat,' a group of young podcasters, lifted the lid on the matter, saying there's such a thing as the 'ChatGPT hyphen.'

When discussing a popular high street band, the group pointed out the dash had made it into the website's copy, with the top most-liked comment under the announcement reading: "Including the ChatGPT hyphen is insane."

Podcasters Daisy Reed and Sapna Rao explained: "It's a longer hyphen, if you've noticed it."

The em dash is a piece of vital punctuation that is adored and used by writers around the world - and has the same effect as a comma, colon or parentheses.

According to Merriam-Webster, it can be used to summarise key info from the end of a sentence or emphasize a certain point.

The podcasters jokingly urged others in the 'public service announcement' to delete the pesky em dashes from their copy to dodge any accusations of using ChatGPT.

Rao added that 'if you’re at school and you’re using [ChatGPT] for your essays, take out the hyphens. I can always tell.'

You might not want to use it in a professional setting (Getty Images)

She said she isn't entirely against the platform, but stressed we should be using it as a 'person' first, explaining how we should input the data, see what ChatGPT comes back with, and edit it appropriately with our human touch.

"Person, ChatGPT, person," she explained as the order of things.

However, not everyone has been so convinced by the apparent discovery, as dozens say the em dash is used by professional writers who don't use AI.

"Not true. As a copywriter, I love an em dash," said one fierce defender.

Another ironically said: "People [are] acting like ChatGPT created grammar."

A third added: "The fact they're all referring to it as a 'longer hyphen' and not an 'em dash' says everything about how it has managed to catch on as an 'AI tell' when it's just correct punctuation," with a crying face emoji.

However, others said the hyphen is 'so bait' and that they always remove it out of their copy.

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