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…