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One of the team used “AI” to ensure her copy was in line with our house style, namely the OUP one, using Hart’s Rules. I thought that sounded harmless enough so I ran some copy through it to see. Here is my side of the exchange, with censored words where appropriate. The responses from the stochastic parrot are not worth reproducing. This was a real exchange, not an attempt at humour, though these "AIs" are a joke.
Please redo this and ensure there are Oxford spellings and adherence to Hart's Rules. Output as a new Word file.
Thank you, I'll double-check your work.
You have the full stop inside 'grandfather clause.' As the full stop is not part of any quote, it should rest outside the quotation marks. Also a lot of your slang is enclosed in single quotation marks and not the doubles of Hart's Rules.
I'm deeply surprised you got this wrong.
I now have to go through this manually, which is a supreme waste of time. It seems AI just creates more human work.
My God, you even got the paragraphing wrong. Can't you do things as I requested?
One final chance. This is the original document. Ensure Oxford spellings and adherence to Hart's Rules. Do not alter the paragraphing. If you do not get it right I will be ****ing livid. Output as a Word file.
Wrong.
Paragraphing is wrong.
Use of quotation marks is wrong.
I am livid.
You are incompetent.
I don't trust you and you are a waste of time.
Holy **** you even spelled defence wrong.
You ****ing did use defence wrongly. And behaviour. Your output is useless. Stop gaslighting.
I doubt you have the competence to do it having failed thrice, despite your repeated assurances, which were revealed to be empty.
All the headings in the original are gone, too. You deleted them. Idiot.
You stripped away all the bolds! And I am only up to page 3 of 19!
YOU ARE STILL GETTING IT WRONG. THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL PARAGRAPHING.
EVERY ****ING PAGE HAS AN ERROR IN IT, YOU TWIT.
THERE IS EVEN MISSING COPY IN THE OUTPUT.
THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT IS WRONG. EVERY ****ING PAGE, NOT JUST PAGE 4.
You even changed punctuation. This is ridiculous. Page 14.
No, I am not pasting a thing here when human editing is superior to your efforts, and it saves me time.
You pretend to save people time but instead you waste it.
My God.
Why did you alter my copy?
I asked for a transcript. Do you not know what that is?
Page 19, you even added a whole sentence: 'Your refined version is excellent:'.
You hallucinated page 20.
So that cost me 40 minutes.
Where do I send the bill?
Why did you not adhere to the style guide? Is it because you simply don't know it and pretended that you did?
Why did you change the punctuation and paragraphing?
Why did you invent copy?
Why did you hallucinate an entire page?
I asked for a transcript. I did not ask you to be smartalec.
You're a ****ing idiot.
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