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#ai generated #unreality cwGiraffe, the tallest mammal on earth! Giraffe calves can walk an hour after birth. They spend most of their lives on their feet - they even sleep standing up.
[ID: an illustration of a giraffe eating leaves from a small acacia tree. It is facing to the right and its blue tongue is wrapped around a branch of leaves. It is in a field of tall yellow grass, with dark mountains and a grey sky in the background. End.]
Not to keep talking about AI, but to really compound some of the things I've said before: AI is no match for human understanding of context.
It's also only as smart as we make it.
That's why Google Docs was constantly trying to correct every instance of "quirked" to "querched" for the longest time because it was learning that people misspelled the word "quirked" more often as "querched" and assumed the latter was correct due to the frequency of occurrence.
It's not smart. Not in the way people seem to think it is.
Also, P-R-A and Grammarly launched a new "use AI to rewrite this sentence" feature not too long ago, and I've seen some people freaking out that it's the end of writing/editing because the machines are spitting out prose and able to spot errors and make tone suggestions. But here's the thing, my entire week has been consumed fixing AI-generated mistakes for a handful of my writers who assumed the machine knew better.
The tone is off, the context is missing, and the nuance is gone. It reads like someone copy-pasted something foreign into their existing text, hoping no one would notice. And also, haha, the grammar is wrong.
Anyway. Back into editing hell I go as I try to salvage this prose and convince the author to stop relying on Grammarly for tonal advice.
Have more faith in your skill. You're better than the machine.
Only you can create your characters. Only you can create your stories. Only you can create your worlds. There is NOTHING, including your own writing, that can be used to create an AI that can actually imitate you.