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Except for your poor editor who then has to manually replace your hyphens with proper em dashes. Still, if you're already disrespecting your editor enough to fe
by oneeyedpigeon 10mo ago
Except for your poor editor who then has to manually replace your hyphens with proper em dashes. Still, if you're already disrespecting your editor enough to feed them AI slop...
- embedding-shape 10mo agoMy editor? I don't think it cares what I input into it, it's just a program. As long as I feed it characters it'll happily tick along as always.
- jasonjmcghee 10mo agoThe parent comment is referring to a human editor, not a text editor.
- embedding-shape 10mo agoHuge assumption on their side then, isn't the context "humans writing for other humans"? Not sure how "publication editors" entered the conversation nor from where.
- oneeyedpigeon 10mo agoI was referring to a human editor, which I thought was obvious enough from context. I assumed the reply was in jest. My original comment was light-hearted, so I don't think it needs to be rigorously analysed, but plenty of humans write for other humans but still have an editor involved in the process.