These days I’m convinced AI re-spells your words before you post something. My wife who is far better with language and writes better than me thinks so too.
Twice this week, my brain failed to keep up when I switched from iPhone to Mac while messaging Karen, resulting in me calling both Karen's dad and the guy who is giving us a quote to fix our weather battered garden fencing 'sweetheart'...
(Fortunately, they both realise I am in a state of perpetual chaos - and 'mostly harmless').
These days I’m convinced AI re-spells your words before you post something. My wife who is far better with language and writes better than me thinks so too.
Depends on the client you are writing in. Yes, sometimes it rewrites our stuff. Google email highlights errors and rewrites words and often gets it wrong. So I always proofread before sending. Sometimes - OK, often - I write wrong too, and for that reason I usually let a draft age a bit, and then reread before sending.
I don't think there is AI supervision in this forum, so my words are mine.
Twice this week, my brain failed to keep up when I switched from iPhone to Mac while messaging Karen, resulting in me calling both Karen's dad and the guy who is giving us a quote to fix our weather battered garden fencing 'sweetheart'...
(Fortunately, they both realise I am in a state of perpetual chaos - and 'mostly harmless').
This is new to me. Firefly seems to be an image/video generator, using your own image as a seed but with as much Adobe content as you want. Just the thing to flood FB with images and reels.
I have a friend who's a magazine editor. His advice for anyone submitting pieces to his publications: Before you send me anything, read it yourself 10 times. And by 10, I mean 25.
I’m always in a hurry to post. Even after reading it several times I miss stuff. It may as well be 10 times. I find my best approach is to walk away for 10-15 minutes and read it again. Something I should start doing religiously
Also my wife and I are convinced AI re-spells your stuff before posting. I think she turned that feature off.
Then there is what we coined sausage finger syndrome.
I have a friend who's a magazine editor. His advice for anyone submitting pieces to his publications: Before you send me anything, read it yourself 10 times. And by 10, I mean 25.
Rereading by itself is not sufficient. Enough time has to pass for you to forget exactly what you wrote. When you come back to reread it, you have to engage different mental processes and that quickly shows errors, excess verbiage, or non-sequiturs.
Rereading by itself is not sufficient. Enough time has to pass for you to forget exactly what you wrote. When you come back to reread it, you have to engage different mental processes and that quickly shows errors, excess verbiage, or non-sequiturs.
Exactly this. Having been a magazine editor - admittedly a long time ago ;-) - and a writer all my life, it's obvious to me that it is almost impossible for the person who wrote the text to ensure it's error free. You need another pair of eyes to check it over. That's what editors, sub-editors, and proof readers are for.
Unfortunately I don't have anyone to sub my forum posts, skeets or emails (though SWMBO does check anything important).