Checking into the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Self-publishing Conference #SelfPubCon this weekend for top tips to inform myself and help support my lovely indie authors!
You can too: it's completely free, replays are available for three days 👇
AI is a problem for editors and authors – and it's serious.
There is a dark side to this technology, with major long-term consequences for authorship and editorial work that we're only just beginning to discover – not least copyright theft.
IIRC the difference between Bing's integrated AI and others is that it cites actual sources from the search engine, so it's less prone to inaccuracy/hallucination?
Is there currently any facility within search engines to opt out or deactivate AI, or is it built-in as standard, requiring consent to use it?
And does it train itself from searches? Happy for more info!
Folks who work on very long docs in Word using Comments: Is there anything I need to look out for? I’m about to start the longest project I’ve ever done in Word specifically and am slightly concerned I’ll get partway through & somehow explode the document. Wisdom? @edibuddies#edibuddies@editors#AmEditing
@eliotedits@edibuddies@editors
How long is the doc? Are you using tracked changes or just comments? If just comments, my only advice is to back up early and often - it shouldn't make even the longest documents unweildy. If you're also using tracked changes, though, turn on the simplified markup. Otherwise that could really hang up loading.
I'd begin by saving a backup of the document before you start editing, delete comments as you go if you find them easily resolvable, and change viewing to simplified, which should speed up loading times. Keep 2 versions of the file, the one you are editing and the document before the edits started. It might also help to have MS Word save the document automatically every 1 minute in this case @eliotedits@edibuddies@editors
As an editor, I'm supporting authors against AI scraping of their work without consent.
I'm publishing a no-holds-barred blog post next week on why AI is a serious problem for editors, and why authors have every right to be concerned about AI use in publishing.
Do look out for it – will post a link here on Monday 🔗
Thanks very much to all my virtual breakout room colleagues for sharing thoughts, hopes, experiences and more!
Bring on day 2! I'm all ready now.
*For more on critical generosity in editorial practice, read the excellent keynote address for Editorial Freelancers Association's conference last month by Cathy Hannabach: https://ideasonfire.net/editing-as-worldmaking/
Are we not counting down to the conference of the year?! Where is everyone? I'm still sad about not going in person, but super excited to meet virtually! Wave if you're attending #ciep2023 too. 👋🏾