I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job

Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by sokoloff on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:17AM (#37555150)

> After offering a legally-binding attestation that I have not, and never will use AI in my writing

That's probably an ill-advised attestation to give from someone deeply familiar wtih AI. All of the grammar tips that Word and other English language editors give you, or context-aware spell-checking? Those are already (or soon will be in the worst case) using AI.

To the extent that your final word choice is influenced by these AI agents, you're using AI in your writing.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by NavinF on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:30AM (#37555247)

Not to mention that predictive text on mobile keyboards is also AI. SwiftKey used a neural network to suggest the next top-k words a decade ago and now all mobile keyboards do it

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by throwaway290 on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:30AM (#37555248)

Unnecessary pedantry.

> All of the grammar tips that Word and other English language editors give you, or context-aware spell-checking? Those are already (or soon will be in the worst case) using AI.

Will you also count any ML algo that recommends some book, podcast or video which affects what the author writes? How far back do you want to go?

In practice "using AI in writing" means a simple thing: "you give a prompt and get text written for you".

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