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Like many nerds, I feel so embarrassed whenever I see that I’ve misspelled something. But some years back when I started producing text in huge amounts for things like the Eclipse Comics read-through I realised that my options were: 1) Remain neurotic about this stuff and produce one blog post per week, or 2) Start caring less and produce a lot of blog posts. I think I made the correct decision — I just don’t have time to proff-read all this stuff, so typos will abound. It’s just not feasible to put as much work into that stuff as you’d do for a properly published article. The reader gets what they pay for. But now there’s a way to have your delicious cake and eat it too — just ask an LLM for help. NOOOO! *audience runs in slow motion towards camera* I know, I know. Whenever I read somebody in deep AI psychosis who thinks they’re being AI sceptical saying “well, of course you shouldn’t let the LLM write your articles. Instead I let it do the research, and then I make it provide an…