Annoying and Cliched: Why ChatGPT Only Creates Titles With Colons

I don’t mind the odd headline with a colon. They can be useful to cut words and effectively communicate. But I do mind it when I ask ChatGPT to generate a random selection of ten blog post titles and it exclusively gives me titles with colons in them. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:770/1*uCJzEpjksQN8nnMcoJJHKA.png" style="height:486px; width:700px" /> Screenshots from author I get so annoyed with ChatGPT when it does this! This trend was so persistent, and my somewhat irrational hatred of it so strong, that I dedicated half a working day to discovering why on earth ChatGPT is so enamored with bisected titles, even when explicitly asked not to. <a href="https://medium.com/geekculture/annoying-and-cliched-why-chatgpt-only-creates-titles-with-colons-3ccc1524bc43">Learn More</a>