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Simon Willison May 9, 2023

I'd love to hear more opinions on generative AI from people who aren't confident writers

I feel like most of the commentary I see is from people who write with confidence - almost by definition, since writing confidently is an important prerequisite for widely broadcasting your opinions on things

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Alex White

@simon there was an interesting blog post by @Edent which looked at the progress of spellcheck and grammar check in his lifetime. Worth a look, he makes some interesting points https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/is-it-cheating-to-use-spell-check/

Is it cheating to use spell check?

When I was a kid, our school had one computer per classroom. Luxury! Teachers had long-since given up on the state of my handwriting. So I got special dispensation to write up some of my work on whatever primitive word processor was installed on the PC. With one caveat: no spell check! Which, even as […]

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