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Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

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Re: Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

#21
AI or not, I'd like to read something that makes sense.

You can very well use AI to just fix your spells and grammars instead of asking it to generate something entirely from scratch.

On the contrary, someone can still ask AI to make a few grammatical errors or spelling mistakes so it "looks like" it's human written? I don't think we should go there.

Re: Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

#23
Spelling and grammar is fine (which don’t need AI), it’s when AI is re-writing it… or writing it in the first place… that it becomes a problem.

When I’m listening to a presentation or YouTube video, or reading an article or email, and certain AI phrases are used, I’m done. It’s such a turn off.

I’ve started reporting YouTube videos that were obviously written by AI. When someone at work gets up to do a presentation and they start using AI style transitions in their speech, I’m dropping from the call. I don’t need anyone to read their AI results to me. That seems like a colossal waste of time. That person is telling me that they can and should be replaced by AI, because they’ve just publicly shown using AI is all they bring to the table, which isn’t something anyone should want to convey to a large group of people at work.

Re: Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

#24
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I write most of my stuff in vim so use a neither a spellchecker or grammar-checker. I have found that since I started doing that my spelling has greatly improved. My grammar can be janky sometimes, but I have doubt programs will help with that. If I want to be sure of my spelling I might find some textbox on some website and paste the text there.

If you happen to use Vim, I think it has a built-in spellchecker.

Re: Ask HN: Should we collectively stop spell checking and fixing grammar

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post #24
post #6

I write most of my stuff in vim so use a neither a spellchecker or grammar-checker. I have found that since I started doing that my spelling has greatly improved. My grammar can be janky sometimes, but I have doubt programs will help with that. If I want to be sure of my spelling I might find some textbox on some website and paste the text there.

If you happen to use Vim, I think it has a built-in spellchecker.

That's correct, but I haven't set it up for my native language.
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