Not joking, buy and read books. Old books are only written by people. (and the help of an editor)

Fun fact: Editors are usually also people. Except for that one dog I met during a cold winter's day in 1987 in a run-down London pub.

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incognito124 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

On the internet, no one knows you're an editor

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scorpionfeet 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you explain the reference? It whooshed me.

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shafyy 2 days ago | parent [-]

Haha, no reference. I just made something up and tried to be funny.

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Mentlo 2 days ago | parent [-]

I tried figuring out the reference with Gemini, and it said this:

The immediate reply to that comment is: "On the internet, no one knows you're an editor." This is a direct play on the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." By setting the anecdote in 1987 (a few years before the World Wide Web was publicly available), the commenter is implying that back in the analog days, if a dog wanted to be a writer or an editor, they couldn't hide behind a screen—they had to sit in a smoky London pub and do business face-to-face.

Which makes a lot of sense actually. I would imagine that's what the replier to you thought you meant.

	▲	shafyy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hahaha great story. But that's not what I had I thought about at all.

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taneliv 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

No way, bro! I'm no longer an editor, though.

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65 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or read magazines and newspapers from reputable publications. My grammar and writing have improved tremendously from reading quality magazine articles, e.g. stuff from The Atlantic or The NY Book Review or whatever.

Both magazines and books are valid forms of information consumption and books are not the only way to improve your writing, reading, and understanding of the world.

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SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent [-]

I wouldn't count on current stuff in those publications being free from AI. We're seeing it in peer-reviewed paper submissions so why not in literary forums?

If you limit yourself to stuff from maybe five years ago or older, yeah it's going to be human-written and human-edited (ghostwriting still possible).

	▲	Miraste 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		AI is much better at generating text that resembles scientific papers than it is at literary writing. Even if they're not all flagged as AI, the incidence will be much lower because they're simply bad writing. They won't make it out of the slush pile at places like GP listed.

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hoherd 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nothing has made me want to read classic literature more than AI. For the first time in probably over a decade I even went to my local used bookstore with a list of books to buy, but sadly none of them were in stock. I have had a bit of luck at little free libraries though.