Post AUJgwRpwPDsoCTeGHI by markloundy@mastodon.online
 (DIR) More posts by markloundy@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #AUI359BaTdudewwytk by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-04-03T23:25:01Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       I spoke to a class of aspiring editors today, and they asked what parts of editing are safe from being taken over by AI.There's a big category of tasks that I call "human judgment" that I think are pretty safe: finding logic errors in business reports, developmental editing for fiction, finding factual errors, and so on. #AmEditing #AmWriting #chatGPT #AI
       
 (DIR) Post #AUI3EM9XdSYQTxNuU4 by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-04-03T23:26:43Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       The "factual errors" part reminds me of newspapers centralizing copy editing though. The loss of local copy editors means more errors about local names and places slip through. Institutional knowledge has value, but companies don't always agree.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUIBLdFRH2Y3A77iEq by pootriarch@sfba.social
       2023-04-04T00:57:41Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl nobody cares anymore. nyt has typos in heds these days, and they used to be the gold standard. or, scarier, maybe they still are
       
 (DIR) Post #AUIHRMTh8Y6yc4uHKa by awitchandherdog@writing.exchange
       2023-04-04T02:05:57Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl The fact that ChatGPT and friends aren't truly *cognizant* means that fiction writing will be safe for some time. They can't catch subtle mistakes, like a character's eye color described incorrectly or a rising sun when the scene is set at night.I wrote a scene where a character handles a telescope, and wrote, "she said with a firm hand" two lines *before* her doing it—which a beta reader caught for me. ChatGPT couldn't have caught that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUIf0NogttSfp8quci by RadiDaddy@mastodon.world
       2023-04-04T06:30:00Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl From a smaller-market broadcast news perspective, we have a lot fewer eyes on any given story before it hits the air than we used to. Combined with relatively high newsroom turnover of people who don’t know the area well, old timers like me are always on the lookout for factual errors in addition to all-too-common typos.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUJOSH0UJAvckX2lCS by wndlb@mas.to
       2023-04-04T14:59:16Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl Oh that’s easy: anything interested in quality. You want crap,…
       
 (DIR) Post #AUJgwRpwPDsoCTeGHI by markloundy@mastodon.online
       2023-04-04T18:26:24Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl @jeffjarvis The overriding point is that the list of exceptions is small enough to list in a tweet.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUK25B2ALUu1jNN0F6 by rebeccajchaney@writing.exchange
       2023-04-04T22:23:17Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @grammargirl I hope so. Otherwise we are heading into scary territory.