Last winter, ChatGPT burst on the scene and exploded editors’ brains. A year later, what do we know? How does ChatGPT (and its proliferating cousins) affect editors’ workflow, roles, and relationships with writers? Over the past several months, I've learned a few things from editors who spent serious time with artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Read more about this … Continue reading Happy First Birthday, ChatGPT. Now what?
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Using AI: curiosity and caution
As I write this, I'm attending a virtual conference organized by ACES: the Society for Editing. One of the most popular topics under discussion is using artificial intelligence or large language models to generate text. Not surprisingly, ChatGPT comes up a lot (amazing to think that's been widely available less than a year!). Also not … Continue reading Using AI: curiosity and caution
Replaced by a robot…?
As a teacher of academic and professional writing, I often worked with students who were struggling with grammar and word-choice. Around 2014-15, students started asking whether it was worth using automatic writing evaluation (AWE) tools such as Grammarly. To test the tool, I doctored some of my own writing and ran it through a Grammarly … Continue reading Replaced by a robot…?
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