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Catie Phares

Draftsmith: A Purpose-Built AI Tool That Respects the Editor

June 5, 2025 by Catie Phares | Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: Editors Canada has partnered with Intelligent Editing on various occasions, and The Editors’ Weekly received free early access for a reviewer to test Draftsmith 2.0 and share an honest opinion.  As an academic editor who regularly writes and speaks about AI’s role in editing, I’d describe myself as a highly skeptical user. I […]

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Holly Vestad

Editing in the Age of AI

March 20, 2025 by Holly Vestad | 2 Comments on Editing in the Age of AI

It’s March 2025, and in offering to write a piece about AI, I run the risk of becoming outdated as I type. From what I can tell, the response to generative AI’s influence on writing and editing ranges from gratitude for its time-saving measures to annoyance at its errors to outright panic at its potential […]

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Tim Green

AI as a Tool in Engineering Editing

July 18, 2024 by Tim Green | 1 Comment on AI as a Tool in Engineering Editing

I am an editor and professional engineer. I teach other engineers how to write good engineering reports. In every session, students ask about the role of AI, if any, in the writing/editing process.  So what does that mean for an editor editing engineering documents? Why people use AI AI is a tool. Why would an […]

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Jennie Seitz

The Effects of AI on Academic Editing

June 20, 2024 by Jennie Seitz | 7 Comments on The Effects of AI on Academic Editing

OpenAI announced on May 13, 2024, that their new model, ChatGPT-4o — which, at its highest level, now appears to be capable of conversations almost indiscernible from those with a human — is now being made available to all users for free (with limitations). Given that ChatGPT already has over 100 million users per week, […]

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Perrin Lindelauf

Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

December 14, 2023 by Perrin Lindelauf | 4 Comments on Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

Intelligent Editing’s PerfectIt has long been the consistency software standard for editors, so when the rapid AI advances of the last year began flipping industries on its head, I grew curious about how the company would keep pace.  Its response is Draftsmith, a new AI writing refiner that promises to bridge the gap between lacklustre […]

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