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Stephen Downes

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Interesting look at a copy editor whose job changed from editing the work of 60 human writers to editing the work of the AI that replaced them. "Mostly, it was just about cleaning things up and making the writing sound less awkward, cutting out weirdly formal or over-enthusiastic language," Miller says. "The real problem was it was just so repetitive and boring. It started to feel like I was the robot." This, of course, is just a temporary stage, and the editor was soon replaced by another AI. In this particular case the articles were park of the pink slime internet. But, eventually, they will be good.

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