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This should be the job of the editor, no? Authors could also leave in typos or previous draft sentences, etc.
by Ferret7446 1y ago
This should be the job of the editor, no? Authors could also leave in typos or previous draft sentences, etc.
- booleandilemma 1y agoThe editors are probably using AI too.
- jorgen123 1y agoOr MS-Word autocorrect. I recently read a self-published book where the daughter of the author was the editor. While the book was nicely done and well written, what to me seemed obvious auto-corrects were painful for being the wrong word in the context of the sentence. Editors needs to check the auto-corrections AND have language skills AND attention to detail. It is easy to ruin the reading experience.
- netsharc 1y agoMy next SaaS-startup is "Use AI to detect AI-slop! Detect prompts and LLM responses that someone forgot to delete! Fix em-dashes!". Anyone want to give me a billion dollars?
- blooalien 1y ago> Anyone want to give me a billion dollars? Sold! I'll save at least twice that by firing all the human writers and editors!
- littlestymaar 1y agoThe author's job is to write the actual novel instead of pasting it from an AI, but in this case yes, it looks like the editor was as lazy as the author and didn't do his own job.
- harryvederci 1y agoSpotting and removing, yes. Writing the damn book should be the job of the author.
- freedomben 1y agoEditors aren't perfect. They miss stuff sometimes.
- duskwuff 1y agoA lot of these books are self-published.