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This is getting to the antivirus bundle level of adding pointless features. I want grammarly to... check my grammar. I don't want it to write for me or suggest
by jccalhoun 1y ago
This is getting to the antivirus bundle level of adding pointless features. I want grammarly to... check my grammar. I don't want it to write for me or suggest things.
- torginus 1y agoToo bad, management wants you to train this shitty chatbot they plan to replace you with
- chemotaxis 1y agoPerhaps you do, but I think this misses the point. For-profit writing is the most successful use case for LLMs today. A significant proportion of all the docs I see at work reek of LLMs. A fair amount of articles you read in the media are written by LLMs. Lawyers use it for legal briefs (sometimes with comical results). Doctors use it for patient notes. Basically, a significant portion of the population doesn't like writing or isn't good at it and really wants a "get it done" button. I might not love it, but the market is there. So Grammarly is addressing a very real need. Further, it's really the only way for them to stay relevant, because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc.
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- toomuchtodo 1y ago> So Grammarly is addressing a very real need. Further, it's really the only way for them to stay relevant, because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc. They are a feature, not a company, with my apologies to Jobs. To your point, software and tools with native writing functionality can incorporate their own LLM support, as can native apps on mobile and desktop. Anything local will eventually be on device imho as model efficiency improves, or perhaps in browser (if not making API calls).
- ghaff 1y agoFlagging likely spelling and basic grammar errors are pretty much incorporated into most word processors at this point. I may or may not choose to ignore them. But they work pretty well and I'm unlikely to use an external tool. I did write for a while for a tech site that had some Wordpress add-on that was oriented to making my writing, I guess, more friendly to an 8th grade level. I ignored it.
- Ekaros 1y agoI mostly just rely on browser to check my spelling. In work well copy paste it to World if I really want to get fancy... I did years ago use Grammarly for my thesis and spam finally ended after years some time ago...
- ghaff 1y agoYou're right that it's mostly just the browser. Other than one or two text editors, I don't think I even have a word processor installed on a system at this point.
- gbalduzzi 1y ago> because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc. To me it is exactly why this move doesn't make sense. Why would I use Grammarly/Superhuman for writing with LLM assistance, when I have an out-of-box alternative that, at worst, is equal? They can't even compete with pricing, because they need to use their competitor models
- chemotaxis 1y ago> Why would I use Grammarly/Superhuman for writing with LLM assistance, when I have an out-of-box alternative that, at worst, is equal? I think the answer is basically that they have brand recognition and they're trying to ride it. Right now, they have two bad choices: become irrelevant more quickly by having a product that's inferior to built-in LLM tools, or become irrelevant more slowly by having a tool that's comparable (and also works anywhere on the internet, not just on specific websites).
- viscanti 1y agoBrand recognition that they're throwing away with a rebrand.
- Mistletoe 1y agoMy Anker earbuds have a new update adding AI. :P
- TheRealNGenius 1y ago[dead]
- egorfine 1y ago> I want grammarly to... check my grammar That's not how it works today. No sepulcator company gets profitable by shipping just a sepulcator. A sepulcator absolutely must have AI, monthly subscription, cloud services and - up until recently - has to be blockchain-based.
- codethief 1y agoWhat's a sepulcator?
- egorfine 1y agoDoesn't matter. No VC is going to invest in it unless it has AI.
- nwhnwh 1y agoWhat a trash world we live in.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoYet another demonstration that if you care at all about building a good business, don't accept VC money no matter what.
- VTimofeenko 1y agoIt's a prominent element of the civilization of Ardrites from the planet of Enteropia; see "Sepulkaria"
- throwpoaster 1y agoA widget.
- teddyh 1y agoA thingamajig.
- romperstomper 1y agoIt is probably a reference to Stanislaw Lem's books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulka
- ghaff 1y agoMaybe it's just because I'm a reasonably decent writer but I used to know someone who was adamant about using Grammarly because it would increase traffic to my website--and I was basically "don't care." ADDED: Because it would make the writing friendlier to more people.
- coffeebeqn 1y agoI don’t know that “friendlier” is a good metric. AI slop is very friendly but off-putting. I’d rather hear someone’s real voice in their writing
- ghaff 1y agoI'm not sure what the right word is. At least according to the tool's output, it's about taking the writing down to a lower grade level. I agree about the authentic voice. At one point, I got pretty unhappy with a fairly junior editor's changes to something I wrote. I was just going to let it go but my manager took it up with the editor's manager in the vein of "this isn't acceptable."
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