Proofreading? Nope.

And I quote:

Almond signed off on a warrant for authorities to search the home Farley shares with his parents and his Audi. The search was executed Wednesday.

Technically, the Audi *does* share the home if it stays in the garage

Written by AI. LOL!

I see a LOT of spelling and gramatic errors in news stories these days. SMDH.

I recently had someone ask why we don’t use AI for writing our magazines and website.

Because we don’t write for robots, I replied. 

David S. Wallens said:

I recently had someone ask why we don’t use AI for writing our magazines and website.

Because we don’t write for robots, I replied. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

And something I heard on NPR the other day and cannot find it online.  The story was about the lack of parity of statues, male vs: female.  And this may not be exact.  But I digress.

Fifty percent of the female statues are of imaginary characters or mermaids.

Read it a few times if you have to.    And I get the point that was being made.  Or at least I think I do.

You could argue that mermaids aren't imaginary:

Funny but well off-topic story, a while ago I read an excerpt from Christopher Columbus' journal, they were sailing along and the crew were like "LOOK CHRIS, MERMAIDS, RIGHT HERE!" So he had a look, saw what we would now call a manatee, and casually wrote in his journal that after finally seeing an elusive mermaid, they weren't nearly as alluring as people said they were

Last night on the local news, during the sports segment they had a banner at the bottom of the screen that said "Vikings eek out a victory."

In reply to stuart in mn :

Those bottom lines are where you'll find most of the mistakes, they're getting populated rapidly often at the last second if it's about some breaking news.

It's really too bad so many media companies are using AI to write the articles instead of using it to add to their proofreading and spellchecking capabilities, but I suppose the fact that typos and errors aren't bad for the bottom line has been well-established by now...

Im not about that life. I proof read things I do professionally, that a client might see. Nothing else. Im not sure I've sent a grammatically correct email or text in the last couple years. If its understandable its close enough. SPEED!

In reply to Opti :

I understand!  And if it makes me laugh, all the better!

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David S. Wallens said:

I recently had someone ask why we don’t use AI for writing our magazines and website.

Because we don’t write for robots, I replied. 

I'm going to sign up with another account so I can upvote this a second time

Noddaz said:

And something I heard on NPR the other day and cannot find it online.  The story was about the lack of parity of statues, male vs: female.  And this may not be exact.  But I digress.

Fifty percent of the female statues are of imaginary characters or mermaids.

Read it a few times if you have to.    And I get the point that was being made.  Or at least I think I do.

 

Are any mermaids characters?

Are there any Ariel or Ursula statues?

Yeah, they probably should have used the word "fictional" instead of "imaginary"

I try to get better at proofreading everyday and it's a struggle. I write technical docs so it's important that things are correctly conveyed. One thing is for sure, I'm not a natural writer. I have gotten better with a lot of practice. 

Toyman! said:

David S. Wallens said:

I recently had someone ask why we don’t use AI for writing our magazines and website.

Because we don’t write for robots, I replied. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

 

And thank you, everyone. 

All if it is written SO much better than F B ads:

"wat do u want to no"

and that, I can at least translate. Half of it I can't even tell what they mean. 

no ai; just losers raised different than me. And my grammar and spelling is really bad.