Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Open AI strikes back: ChatGPT's new feature will end AI slop

I have a source at OpenAI that leaked a major feature they're going to put out, that will make up the ground they're losing to Claude. Here's an early draft of the press release.

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OpenAI is rolling out a new feature with ChatGPT model 5.5 that provides special resistance to an ongoing issue with AI output: the telltale signs that the output is AI, which is a major turnoff and source of frustration on the internet.

The new feature, dubbed Preview Plus(tm), lets users go through ChatGPT's output and actually purge all the AI pain points.

  • Em-dashes? Users can delete them.
  • "It's not X but Y"? It's "X in Y clothing"? Users can replace it with their own authentic version a human would actually say.
  • Hallucinated legal citation? Users can insert something from actual case law that they have personally validated applies to the matter in question.

Preview Plus(tm) currently only available to paid plan subscribers and users who have opted in to early feature testing.

OpenAI CEO Sam Atman is hopeful about the new direction Preview Plus(tm) will take ChatGPT. Earlier today, he told a press conference, "Preview Plus empowers users to actually stand between ChatGPT and the eventual consumer of its output artifacts. It provides a seamless way to merge human intelligence with cutting-edge AI, getting the best of both worlds."

OpenAI gave a screenshot of an early version of the feature that shows a user removing the dreaded em-dash. 

 

A user removing an em-dash in Preview Plus(tm)

 

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