After an unfortunate incident involving a water leak and my laptop, I had little choice but to buy a new Apple Mac laptop.
Like all Macs, it's extremely user-friendly and I'm generally happy with it.
But I just found that among this one's writing tools are "Make friendly" and "Make professional". I tried both on a feature I was writing and the results were shocking.
Not only did both options – in different ways – change key words and make the prose unnatural, but on top of that they changed words in quotations from the interviewee so that they were "friendly" or "professional" – and completely inaccurate.
Journalists have always had to live with accusations of making up quotes. Now we've got computers making up quotes for them.
The slippery slope is getting slippier...
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