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Over the past couple of years, due to the rapid development of AI technologies, many people keep joking that robots and GPT will soon replace everyone. They especially like to scare people working in creative fields, such as editors. But has artificial intelligence really become so smart to easily replace people by correcting errors and proofreading text? Spoiler: NO. No matter how brilliant and highly developed AI is, there are still things it will never be able to understand. So, have a look at the TOP 5 mistakes that even ChatGPT won’t fix!

1. Stylistic errors

Have you ever noticed how ChatGPT just mirrors the way you talk and tries to make you satisfied? AI can perfectly correct all punctuation, grammar, or even spelling errors; it can also edit sentence structure and paraphrase, but when it comes to stylistic errors, it often cannot see the problem. For instance, when there are a lot of belles-lettres and colloquial words or overly formal constructions in a scientific text. AI often doesn’t notice until you point them out to it because it looks at text only technically.

2. Deep context

The ChatGPT analyzes the text you send and can also search for information in open Internet sources. However, when it comes to historical, cultural, or sociopolitical context, AI usually has shallow knowledge here. Moreover, keep in mind the fact that some information is not in Internet sources because it is very old or, vice versa, new and related to the present. Unlike AI, the editor is always up-to-date with current events and knows more sources (books, videos, real people, etc.) and ways to find the necessary information about the past. That’s why people understand things deeper than AI.

3. Ambiguity/subtext

Do you know what makes us, people, unique? (No, not only our ability to complicate our lives ourselves…) We have empathy, we can also recognize sarcasm, irony and various metaphors and effortlessly use them in daily communication. We are much more likely than AI to catch a wordplay, hidden connotation or double meaning in the text. Editors not just have soul and empathy but are usually well-educated and all-around individuals who read and analyze a lot; therefore, they have a deep understanding of the text, context, and subtext. Editors may not always look at the text as closely as proofreaders do, but they make the text readable and improve the overall quality of writing. Something that AI usually fails at…

4. Creative writing

Artificial intelligence sometimes generates fascinating and creative ideas (although they are just modified human ideas…), but it always writes so standard. People are the only living creatures on the planet having the ability to write, imagine, and use the power of words. No matter how useful a tool AI can be, even for editors and writers, it doesn’t think creatively and unconventionally.

5. Author’s style

Although AI seems to be an excellent psychologist, because the way it deals with information is truly impressive sometimes. But it is still just a robot with no sense of intuition or empathy. AI can notice and conclude that the text has a certain author’s style, but it can barely understand what it consists of. The main difference between a human and an AI here is that the second one cannot be unique.