Post #4171053
2026-07-28 10:54 UTC
But from the very start, I knew that you couldn't just trust a spellchecker to correct your documents. I mean, I'm a *science fiction writer*. I started making up silly words *decades* before coining "enshittification." I've been telling spellcheckers to fuck off since I learned to type. If you aren't a good writer, spellcheckers are *dangerous*, and the more "advanced" the spellchecker is, the more dangerous it is.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:54
A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable - so much so that I often copy the block of text we're working on into a text editor, make my changes, then paste it back into the Word window. 14/