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> After offering a legally-binding attestation that I have not, and never will use AI in my writing That's probably an ill-advised attestation to give from som
by sokoloff 3y ago
> After offering a legally-binding attestation that I have not, and never will use AI in my writing
That's probably an ill-advised attestation to give from someone deeply familiar wtih AI. All of the grammar tips that Word and other English language editors give you, or context-aware spell-checking? Those are already (or soon will be in the worst case) using AI.
To the extent that your final word choice is influenced by these AI agents, you're using AI in your writing.
- throwaway290 3y agoUnnecessary pedantry. > All of the grammar tips that Word and other English language editors give you, or context-aware spell-checking? Those are already (or soon will be in the worst case) using AI. Will you also count any ML algo that recommends some book, podcast or video which affects what the author writes? How far back do you want to go? In practice "using AI in writing" means a simple thing: "you give a prompt and get text written for you".
- NavinF 3y agoNot to mention that predictive text on mobile keyboards is also AI. SwiftKey used a neural network to suggest the next top-k words a decade ago and now all mobile keyboards do it