Fuck You, Copilot
A little while ago, I talked about using AI for editing. I started looking for online AI editors, but then discovered Copilot could do the job for me. This was like finding out the neighbour I’d blissfully ignored for years had a skillset that I could’ve been maximising. My initial conversation with Copilot was the sort of conversation I might have with a human editor before they started work – a feeling out process. Copilot wanted to rewrite me. I told it, no, I just wanted a hard proofread. It said it could do that. We went back and forth over the parameters. I insisted it marked things up in…
Getting in front of the AI Boom in Publishing
Years and years ago, I learned how to make ebooks. Ebooks function like websites, comprising of code. I had enough HTML knowledge to understand most stuff, and take a guess at what the rest was doing (albeit without sometimes really knowing why it was doing what it was doing). My former boss, who ran a small hybrid publisher, encouraged me to pursue it as a sideline, but I could see the way the technology was evolving. Software like InDesign allowed you to export files into ebook formats. They weren’t perfect incarnations, but if you knew enough you could go in and perform the fine tuning. I also knew it was…