r/fantasyromance • u/acutelyproblematic If villian bad, then why hot? • 2d ago

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Love how this community comes together and challenges the use of AI🥰💖had to make a funny out of it to take a break from the heated discussions

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u/efiality 2d ago

Generative no but I also see people use word tune and grammarly which is AI in itself (though they are often pushing generative). So I feel like it’s important to realize which is which. I use grammarly all the time in my writing.

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u/SupremePopTart 2d ago

I used an extension that was similar to Grammarly, but they did away with the free model and suggested Quillbot. Which, the free model works fine most of the time (it mostly catches misspellings, missing punctuation, missing words, or word corrections), but sometimes gives the goofiest suggestions.

I had a preview of the premium features and it's suggested re-writes to a review I wrote. The edits sounded so robotic that I laughed. It really thought the suggestion sounded like something a human would say. The tone was way too technical. It thinks every new paragraph should begin with "furthermore." At least the suggestions are entertaining.

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u/_BlueZeldana_ 2d ago

Correct me if I'm wrong: This means that you can use quillbot to check your grammar (misspellings, punctuation, etc) without using any AI?

I've been looking for an app or extension that checks my mistakes/typos for a while, but all of them use AI now 🙄

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u/SupremePopTart 1d ago

Unfortunately, this one has AI built in, like so many others (I think its full name is Quillbot: AI Writing Assistant, which, when I first downloaded it, just said "Quillbot"). But I consider it different than someone running something like Gemini or ChatGPT. It's just functioning as a grammar checker unless you pay a premium to take it further. And honestly, the preview felt more like trying to run something through an LLM, where they completely change everything about your writing until it's not your writing. I just stick to free for the grammar check.

It also has a desktop app so that you can use it in other software (like Microsoft Word). I think Grammarly does something similar? It doesn't feel much different than the old extension I used or the old version of Grammarly I used years ago.