I think a similar term can be used for text: a synthote is a piece of writing that’s been composed using generative models.
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Today, text editing is very limited.
- Done manually by humans.
- Focused on small sections of text–words, sentences.
- Just editing; not re-shaping, re-imagining; rarely re-phrasing.
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Contrast that to image editing.
- It goes beyond cropping and correcting blemishes.
- Photoshop enables the editor to re-imagine the image.
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Text editor of the future will consume your entire writing and synthesize them into the desired shape, style etc.
- They’ll be able to summarize text or add more detail.
- They’ll be able to switch between styles–literature, journalistic, technical, comics.
- etc etc.
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While I agree with most of what is being said, I’m still thinking Is AI actually creative?
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