RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Do you know what is infuriating about AI assisted dictation and grammar checking? It's that it bases its deductions on what most other people have done, in other words what is most frequently written, a significant number of which seem to have been written by the functionally illiterate. It's not what <em>you've</em> written in the past but what the zeitgeist frequently writes. As a result, it inserts strange pronouns, words that don't fit, and corrects your proper word choice to something totally inappropriate because that's what everybody else is writing. Using AI dumbs down your writing.</p><p>Totally useless for an author!</p><p>(Case in point: Dictation was used to write this post. It insisted on changing "dumbs down" to "thumbs down" repeatedly, despite it showing the word <em>dumbs</em> for a fraction of a second!)</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Dictation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictation</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AutoCorrect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoCorrect</span></a></p>