It's underlining more and more of what I write, in more and more colors, but suggestions for fixing sentences or words are now pretty much all under a paywall. WTF?
I use Grammarly for almost eveything I type online (I pay for the premium version) as it is great at catching numerous grammatical errors.
I think the professor here had an ego trip. The #YouTube comment section is full of outraged professionals (including professors) who understand a spell checker #AI does not create content.
In my defense, #Grammarly has a problem with commas (the Oxford in particular), and it chokes on #screenplay format - ALSO, using it in Final Draft is nearly impossible. #writing#editing#selfediting
Come on, be a bit more positive, #Grammarly tells me.
Instead of saying these VVER reactors are "neither small nor new", why not rephrase that to "both small and old"?
Now I am extremely grumpy for having to deal with AI stupidity, which is going to affect the tone of everything else I write, and Grammarly is going to keep jauntily pushing me towards the sunshine.
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I have now had to uninstall both #Grammarly and #TubeBuddy because they're both raced to #enshittification by both locking more and more features behind paywalls AND constant "use our paid-only AI (haha def not chat gpt btw)" ads you can't turn off
(1/2) Holy 🐮, did you know there is a Grammarly extension to VScode?!? 📚📖📒
TIL that there is a #VScode extension to plug in #Grammarly to VScode that enables text editing directly on VScode. I started to use Grammarly when I wrote my first book, and since then, this is my go-to app for text editing. I used VScode as #markdown and #Quarto editor, and so far, I had to do a ton of copy-paste between VScode and Grammarly. Hopefully, now, this extension will make this process more efficient. 👇🏼
I'm looking for #Grammarly alternatives. I'm finding the latest iterations make too many errors when analyzing complex sentences. More importantly, despite my best efforts to disable the dozen or more language policing features, it's starting to feel like HR is constantly reading over my shoulder.
Me: "Then we all headed out for the old watering hole."
Grammarly: "Then we all headed out for the older watering hole."
Installed #Grammarly free. A proper idiot. Too pedantic, or too colloquial, or fails to grasp the conversation. But it is very good at spotting double spaces.
#Grammarly. I mean come on. I've been bed bound with #flu or #COVID the last 2 days and went down a YouTube rabbit hole of music. Elvis Costello's early stuff, Cramps mental hospital gig, and exploring some amazing 70s/80s stuff, and I had songs interrupted mid sentence by ads for grammarly, every phrase of beautiful music ruined by grammarly's terrible sense of pace. Every carefully crafted lyrical journey badly punctuated and destroyed. Not a good advert is it grammarly?
How did we as a society allow #Grammarly to even progress past the point where they were cold-emailing random bloggers offering Amazon gift cards in exchange for gushing reviews? Honestly, we deserve whatever dumb bullshit they pull next.
Habt ihr Erfahrungen mit #Grammarly gemacht? Lohnt die doch nicht ganz so günstige Premiumversion? Gerade bei längeren englischen Texten kann ich Stützräder durchaus gut gebrauchen, genauso wie sprachübergreifende Hilfe beim prägnanten Formulieren.
Grammarly has a "bug" where it wants to correct the word, but jumps back to do so while you're still trying. So you end up typing in a middle of a word, going back to correct it (assume you spot it). Additionally, it wants to autocorrect-fix those words, sometimes just as I hit submit.
I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect them.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
@rysiek
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To believe that #AI will merely be a harmless and purely benevolent tool for everyone is naive, imo-- especially for those in #writing and #publishing.
The #automobile revolutionized the world. In the process, it also put a lot of blacksmiths out of work, and sent a lot of horses to glue factories & slaughterhouses.
I see my #editorial career as being like a blacksmith in the age of #AI. It won't be a common job in the future, & the few who do it will have a very different job description & use very different tools than I ever have. Software like #Grammarly & #ChatGPT can already do much of the work I used to do-- not as well as a human right now, but it won't be long until they can reliably replace #editors.
But once again, we'll be handing our #art over to corporations-- the same oligarchs who plowed over our #copyrights to train their AI will control the software that they'll make us reliant on.
Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.
I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.