• Adventures in Writing

    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…