Post #4171051
2026-07-28 10:54 UTC
If I were to accept even 10% of these suggestions, my work would be made *significantly* worse. Putting chatbots into Word pushed it from "annoying" into "enshittening." I certainly understand how relying on a chatbot to make edits to your work could make it worse.
That's where *discernment* comes in. I have written more than 30 books over the past 25 years.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:54
I have *lots* of experience defending my word choices, and not just against the mechanical judgments of a high-handed spellchecker, but also against overreaching copyeditors and paranoid publisher's lawyers. I *know* which words I want to write, and I know *why* I want to write them - and I know when a suggested fix is a good one and when it's wrong or stupid or just plain clunky. When it comes to writing, I have discernment. 16/