Jane Rosenzweig

Email subject line from a Grammarly email. "Pro is half price. Your reputation is priceless."

I mean...

I guess what I should have said when I posted this is that perhaps it is because they think reputations are priceless that they are providing advice from people with reputations without paying them.

Email subject line from a Grammarly email. "Pro is half price. Your reputation is priceless."

I mean...

Also should go without saying but: there are a lot of amazing editors and teachers out there who give actual expert feedback on writing, and that is how they make their living. So if one is seeking expert feedback, one could also hire one of them/take their classes.

I'm guessing there is no actual list of experts because I was able to get it to use me...by using my own name in the post I tested. Seems more like some kind of prompt that has it find people who seem relevant. bsky.app/profile/jane...

screenshot of text in Grammarly that says "On the other hand, you can learn other things in your other course work and that is also going to be useful to you. The frcitoin is the point as Jane Rosenzweig has noted. So has Benjamin Riley and John Warner." Under that text is a "pro suggestion" from Jane Rosenzweig: "clarify the value of 'friction' for your reader

A lot of discussion about the "list" Grammarly is using, but I doubt there's a list, just a prompt that yields "relevant" advice. I took the direct route to getting advice from myself, which was...to mention myself. This passage also got me some advice from @biblioracle.bsky.social

Always good to see "to what problem is generative AI the solution" as framing

The great manual grammatizator

In addition flattening, it also changes the meaning-now reads like a bunch of disconnected thoughts. But I'm sure if you run it through expert mode, Joan Didion will tell you to start with an emotional hook and Jane Austen will tell you to put a marriage in there, so you will get your money's worth.

Also should go without saying but: there are a lot of amazing editors and teachers out there who give actual expert feedback on writing, and that is how they make their living. So if one is seeking expert feedback, one could also hire one of them/take their classes.

Also I only have the free version, but none of the expert advice I could see pointed out to me that there was a random name scattered throughout my (very bad and incoherent) paragraph.

Screen shot of passage of text that mentions Dave Karpf, Jane Rosenzweig, and John Warner and the Grammarly expert advice review in a side panel that draws expert advice from all three of those people

Lol I took my passage above and just put @davekarpf.bsky.social's name in it randomly three times along with the title of one of his books and then he popped up on the expert list.

I'm guessing there is no actual list of experts because I was able to get it to use me...by using my own name in the post I tested. Seems more like some kind of prompt that has it find people who seem relevant. bsky.app/profile/jane...

screenshot of text in Grammarly that says "On the other hand, you can learn other things in your other course work and that is also going to be useful to you. The frcitoin is the point as Jane Rosenzweig has noted. So has Benjamin Riley and John Warner." Under that text is a "pro suggestion" from Jane Rosenzweig: "clarify the value of 'friction' for your reader

A lot of discussion about the "list" Grammarly is using, but I doubt there's a list, just a prompt that yields "relevant" advice. I took the direct route to getting advice from myself, which was...to mention myself. This passage also got me some advice from @biblioracle.bsky.social

Worth a read. And if you have ideas to share about how you're navigating your own classroom right now, please consider writing for theimportantwork.substack.com

"“One documentary-maker who’s won Emmys, he messaged me and he was like, ‘I’m being handed a shovel and told to dig my own grave,’ and that’s exactly how everyone thinks about it,” she says. Still, as a single mom, she needed the money. "

"It is the difference between a future of abrupt mass unemployment and something more subtle but potentially just as disruptive: a future in which a growing number of people find work teaching AI to do the work they once did"

Glad to hear people can opt out of this; hopefully someone will do that on behalf of Joan Didion and others who would never give this boilerplate advice but are not here to opt out.

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Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I was able to "guess" correctly which passages on here were human written, although the prompt is to choose which you like better. But both of those questions seem incomplete to me because they ignore why we read, why we create, and whether even if we can't tell the difference, it still matters.

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I was able to "guess" correctly which passages on here were human written, although the prompt is to choose which you like better. But both of those questions seem incomplete to me because they ignore why we read, why we create, and whether even if we can't tell the difference, it still matters.

A close-up of a text that says “Computer-assisted instruction may be the promise of the future. It may prove to be a cost-effective answer to over-crowded classes in composition and to reduced personnel budgets. But if we hope to see the potential of such instruction realized in the composition classroom, we must be prepared to examine critically the software that we see at conventions and in our journals. Moreover, we mjust become careful observers of the specific programs on our students and our courses”

Doing some research for a talk and came across this, from 1984, which seems very relevant. Source:https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc198414897

A close-up of a text that says “Computer-assisted instruction may be the promise of the future. It may prove to be a cost-effective answer to over-crowded classes in composition and to reduced personnel budgets. But if we hope to see the potential of such instruction realized in the composition classroom, we must be prepared to examine critically the software that we see at conventions and in our journals. Moreover, we mjust become careful observers of the specific programs on our students and our courses”

Doing some research for a talk and came across this, from 1984, which seems very relevant. Source:https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc198414897

In addition to the fact that these people have not actually given this advice, worth noting the advice is just nonsensical. Here, I'm told Steven Pinker would suggest putting an example in a sentence that..includes an example. What is this advice for, exactly? (Passages are from an article I wrote)

In addition to the fact that these people have not actually given this advice, worth noting the advice is just nonsensical. Here, I'm told Steven Pinker would suggest putting an example in a sentence that..includes an example. What is this advice for, exactly? (Passages are from an article I wrote)

screenshot of grammarly giving "expert" advice to the opening of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The advice purports to be from an Austen scholar, Claudia L. Johnson, and says "sharpen ironic thesis for instant reader alignment"

Not an Austen scholar but guessing this would not be the "expert" advice that an Austen scholar would give Jane Austen since it makes...little sense? (I was interested in whether Grammarly would flag the passage-if you put this into ChatGPT and ask for feedback it asks if this was a mistake.

screenshot of grammarly giving "expert" advice to the opening of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The advice purports to be from an Austen scholar, Claudia L. Johnson, and says "sharpen ironic thesis for instant reader alignment"

Not an Austen scholar but guessing this would not be the "expert" advice that an Austen scholar would give Jane Austen since it makes...little sense? (I was interested in whether Grammarly would flag the passage-if you put this into ChatGPT and ask for feedback it asks if this was a mistake.

Setting aside many things here, this doc is also full of arguable claims presented without evidence. Perhaps, for example, the best way for educators to help students "harness AI" is to make sure we teach them first to think/write/analyze/have ideas themselves. Then they can harness away.

So the byline has a person's name and a little "AI" next to it. All but one paragraph in this article is entirely sourced from other news outlets. Looked through some of the other articles, which seem to be the same pattern.

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm | CNN Business Last year, Hoodline began filling its site with AI-generated articles, and Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, defended the practice.

"The outlet, which is profitable, Chen said, plans to hire more human journalists as the company looks to evolve its current AI personas into “AI news anchors delivering stories in short-form videos.”