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Spent $200 on an 'AI proofreader' for my novel and it tried to delete all the swearing lmao
I was finishing my draft and saw an ad for this service that uses AI to edit for tone and clarity. Figured it was worth a shot. I uploaded my file, paid the fee, and got it back an hour later. The bot had 'suggested' replacing every single curse word with things like 'darn' and 'gosh darn it.' It completely ruined the voice of my main character, who's a salty old sailor. So I basically paid two hundred bucks for a digital hall monitor. Has anyone else had an AI 'help' you by just making your work super bland?
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jenny3917d ago
But what did you expect? It's a machine following rules, not a real editor. Maybe it was set for a general audience and you didn't tell it your character's voice. That's on you for not checking the settings first. Two hundred is cheap for editing, and you got a clean draft back. Just add the swearing back in yourself, it takes five minutes. Sounds like you got a decent deal for a basic scrub.
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clark.robin7d ago
Honestly, you're missing the real problem here. It's not about the money or the settings. The issue is that a machine can't understand why a character swears. Maybe they do it when they're scared, or to show they're from a certain place. Taking all that out just makes the character flat. It's like the difference between a photo and a sketch. You got a clean sketch back, but you paid for a photo. That's why this whole AI editing thing feels like a scam sometimes.
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miles9466d ago
My editor flagged swears, I just explained the character's voice.
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