ChatGPT, the AI that can write poems, emails, spreadsheet formulas, and more, has attracted a lot of negative publicity lately. Q&A coding site Stack Overflow temporarily banned users from sharing content generated by ChatGPT, saying that the AI made it too easy for users to flood the site with spammy answers. Then, New York City […]
As reported by Variety, writer Samuel D. Hunter first met director Darren Aronofsky to talk about the possibility of adapting his Off-Broadway play, The Whale, for the screen when the film director was in the middle of editing his 2014 biblical epic, Noah. While Noah and The Whale couldn’t be more different, Aronofsky declared, “What […]
“I hope young people can see the messy parts of themselves in Roz and Damian.” When M.K. Lobb started writing the manuscript that would ultimately become her debut YA novel, she set out to write a book for herself. “I wasn’t trying to impress anyone—it was a compilation of all the things I liked,” Lobb […]
The average agency grade on writing quality slipped from a B- to C in the latest scorecard from the Center for Plain Language, although within that average seven of the 21 agencies rated saw an improvement in their overall writing grade. The report card produces separate grades for organizational compliance—staffing, training, and reporting requirements under […]
Looks like this is turning out to be tech-Tuesday. On the heels of raising a big round of funding at a $1 billion valuation last week , DeepL is taking the wraps off a new language product, the first extension for a startup that made its name from its popular AI-based translation tools. Write is […]
Tel-Aviv-based AI21 Labs launched today Wordtune Spices, a writer-augmentation tool based on generative AI. Selecting from 12 different cues, writers can generate a range of textual options to add to and enhance sentences. Spices can also suggest statistics to strengthen an argument or sharpen a detail. Human and robot writing together. getty AI21 says Spices […]
Okay, this is just for fun: The Scrabble dictionary has been updated for the first time since 2018, and it includes 500 new words — though Scrabble won’t reveal what everyone is, telling players to hunt through the new dictionary to find them all. They’ve also removed several hundred slurs and other offensive words so […]
