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Ashkuri

FYI as a resource to those interested, there are non-AI grammar checkers, such as Harper

Pavel

@Kestrel If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably goes just as well with an orange sauce.

Kestrel

(Actually not about VK, it’s just these psychos all use the exact same playbook)

Pavel

@Juniper The point is less that we the previous posters use LLMs and more that we use spelling and grammar checkers that have had LLMs shoved into them.

Juniper

Am I alone in that there’s pretty much nothing an LLM could pick up that I couldn’t on my own with a simple re-read?

L. B. Heuschkel

@Pavel As a writer, I am not the least ashamed of using ProWriteAid (which is similar to Grammarly) to catch typos and blatant grammar errors. It also offers AI spicing up services, and those I’d be ashamed of using.

Pavel

@Third-Eye Yeah, even with Grammarly, there’s a vast difference between it catching when I type “slient” instead of “silent” or forget to capitalise Instagram, and getting it to rewrite my shit entirely. I have RP partners to tell me my writing is crap; I don’t need to pay a subscription service to do it for me.

Third Eye

@Pavel
Grammarly is the tool I assumed was being referenced without anyone saying it directly. I used to use it just as a spelling and grammar-checker, too, but it’s been completely taken over by AI ‘features’ in ways that people seem to feel gives them cover when they say ‘oh I didn’t rewrite this with AI I used just Grammarly’. My friends in Beelzebub, you had Grammarly rewrite it and AI it up, that is what happened.

I have no doubt there’s more going on under the hood with Word these days than just spell-checking in ways where I don’t want to turn it loose on something I wrote but I haven’t felt like the red under-lines are doing anything too weird…yet.

Pavel

@Kestrel You’re probably right; I’m out of the loop. I use Grammarly in my real-life writing solely for the purpose for which it was originally made, but now it has all these generative “features” that I ignore. I imagine it’s probably pretty easy to use them and still feel justified in claiming it’s just for spelling and grammar.

Kestrel

The thing that annoys me is that when people claim they just use it for spellcheck or whatever, 90% the time they’re lying. I know a whole bunch of people who claim they just use it for polish and then will turn out 10 paragraphs of the most boring slop imaginable. It’s just, idk. It’s like how cheaters sound — “it was just one kiss! It meant nothing!”

Anyway I think I vaguely suspect the game @yam’s referring to, and its community has a powerful stink already even though it hasn’t launched yet. Highly doubt you’re missing out on anything if my guess is right.

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