The app for independent voices

Someone once gave me a horrified look because I was recruiting for copywriters and said I wasn’t at all bothered about typos or spelling mistakes in the applications. Proofing - and now AI - can fix that shit. But impeccable spelling is not a necessary or sufficient condition for good writing.

At the time I argued that dyslexic writers exist, that everyone knows you can’t check your own work, and that maybe they didn’t have time to send it to a friend first (or had no-one willing to help). Now I suppose you could insist it shows respect to the reader to run it through AI but I still just… don’t care.

I wonder whether - as for most of written history - spelling mistakes are going to go back to being not a big deal, or maybe even not a thing. It’s always been a slightly odd aberration in language use that we put this much emphasis on them. Shakespeare was quite happy to call himself Shakspere too. Once the LLM can spell perfectly every…

Apr 8
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