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.
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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.