AI Bot Accounts - things to look for.

[UltraBudgie]

imitator

The advice I've heard from writers is to delete Grammarly and avoid it like the plague. I don't know, I've never used it, but I suspect they're right. I think it's an uphill battle to say that's right for everyone though, and for sure it is changing society in new ways. It's the metaphorical equivalent of "microplastics" – creepingly ubiquitous, plastic in its unnatural falsity, but micro-processor composed rather than micro-scopically composed.

[imitator]

UltraBudgie

Yeah, I’ve just got the free Grammarly plugin running in my browser... it fixes spelling and grammar, nothing fancy.

I’ve heard the full version can start tweaking your prose style though, same as most AI tools.
End of the day, it’s all about knowing how to use your tools... a good writer controls the AI, a beginner lets the AI control them.

[Maxmars]

UltraBudgie

Yeah, I’ve just got the free Grammarly plugin running in my browser... it fixes spelling and grammar, nothing fancy.

I’ve heard the full version can start tweaking your prose style though, same as most AI tools.
End of the day, it’s all about knowing how to use your tools... a good writer controls the AI, a beginner lets the AI control them.

Maybe it's not just being a beginner...

I know I'm not like everyone else, slightly insane, but harmless...

But if in anyway we're alike it might be that we "choose" to write our thoughts...
they matter enough to impose permanence of our utterances...
often called out as some kind of emotional need, I think it's more to do with dignity and agency.

I often have a slurry of thoughts and comments I cram in (a dead giveaway that I don't have many communicative associations.)  And my "output" (from the perspective of a set of algorithms) lacks completely logical flow, or detracts from the message because of my tendency to write how I speak (my voice.)

Things like this might be very helpful... if you have faith that nothing "of you" is lost in the new "output.."

But polish... in speech, writing, or any such communication is about appearances... chose your poisons as you can tolerate them.

A hand scrolled note from a 4-year old reading: "I Lov U dAD?"... you're goddamn right it passes muster.

[imitator]

Right on...  I Lov U dAD? works better than any grammar-checker.

But hey, not everyone’s four years old… sometimes you’ve gotta write so people can actually read you.
It’s kind of like shorthand... full of meaning, just not for everyone to read.

That’s why most writers have editors and proofreaders...  and dare I say, AI. 

[Maxmars]

I have heard that editors in the writing industry are a timid lot...

They hardly recognize the destructive 'normalizing' effect they have on written expression...
and of late... I may have just heard in babble... their concerns are not primarily about
a writer's art... like, at all.

Their pretty much Hollywood/Music Industry/Media absorbed...

[imitator]

Well, most experienced writers choose their editors... that’s part of protecting their voice.

The ones who don’t often end up with something, as you said, a little too sanitized.
It all comes back to using the right tools for the message you’re trying to send.

[sahgwa]

"Never use semi-colons, all it proves that you went to collage."

--Kurt Vonnegut

I like semi-colons; it's like when my thought is not completely finished.

[Maxmars]

Well, most experienced writers choose their editors... that’s part of protecting their voice.

The ones who don’t often end up with something, as you said, a little too sanitized.
It all comes back to using the right tools for the message you’re trying to send.

But most new writers don't get that choice.

It's only after the filter, that the work emerges.

As for me, I desperately need one... if only to protect me from myself,

but as i said before... that is never the prime consideration for publishing work - from the editor's perspective - it's like 'clinical detachment' but for writing.... it works... I'm not knocking it...

[Raptured]

I moderate a fairly popular group on Facebook (80k+ members) and the amount of bots we see is alarming.  They get past the sign-up questions but are getting easier to spot.  They'll typically post a very generic question and one that's been posted many times before.

[chr0naut]

"Never use semi-colons, all it proves that you went to collage."

--Kurt Vonnegut

collage /kō-läzh′, kə-/
noun
An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.
A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.

I guess you aren't a bot, then.