AI, your (overly) helpful, slightly batty editor?
Every week, I’m sent suggestions for new artificial intelligence (AI) editors that can “sharpen” my sentences, “strengthen” my writing, highlight misused or missing words and generally limber up flabby phrases.
The most recent selections came from Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Jeremy Caplan. He covered DeepL Write, Quillbot Paraphraser and Wordtune Spices.
As curator of these so-called “wonder tools”, Mr Caplan also offered three other suggestions: Lex.page, Notion AI and Grammarly. Considering Grammarly has been around for a while (albeit, not with an AI makeover), I rather suspect that some of these tools may have been lurking around, on the margins of the collective consciousness (or at least on the developmental treadmill) waiting for the ceremonial blast of the trumpets as they played them into the big time.
Have they hit the big time? Should they? You can judge for yourself, based on my results with Wordtune Spices
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