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Proofreading is one place that AI can actually be a friend rather than a foe. If you give Claude your draft and tell it explicitly to call out misspellings and
by gpjt 2y ago
Proofreading is one place that AI can actually be a friend rather than a foe. If you give Claude your draft and tell it explicitly to call out misspellings and grammatical errors only, it does a really good job.
- zabzonk 2y agoMuch like (say) MS Word does? In real time.
- dc96 2y agoAI is a lot more powerful in this aspect. MS Word would find no qualms in this sentence: "I started the car and went for a drive on the highway. There were many other cats on the road but it was nevertheless agitating." Given the correct prompt (that avoids changing your literary style altogether), AI can quickly suggest cats -> cars and agitating -> peaceful, since it's much better at contextualizing.
- arvinsim 2y agoProofreading is easily done with an editor. I think AI is much more useful for giving critic and advice on how you write your sentences. Setting the tone, refining the main idea, pointing out redundancies are some of the things that I find very useful.
- gpjt 2y agoSometimes, but you have to be careful. IME Claude and (to my surprise) Grok 3 are really good at understanding your style and adapting their suggestions to match. ChatGPT, by contrast, tries to change everything into some kind of corporate drone.
- arvinsim 2y agoAnother thing is to know when to stop. AI can endlessly refine your sentences if you let it.