Join Nostr
2025-01-16 00:54:59 UTC
in reply to

Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman on Nostr: oh hell yes. My late father came up in that era and dictated most of his ...

oh hell yes. My late father came up in that era and dictated most of his correspondence for his secretary. I talked to him about it and he freely admitted that he expressed himself normally, with the same pauses and ums and ahs and rewording and "scratch that, what I meant was" that you and I would. And his secretary of course turned that into grammatically correct prose in more or less his style. An accurate transcript of his speech would have been useless, and an automated paraphrase dangerous. But anyway she was doing a lot of work!

(incidentally, as email became a thing, Dad refused to use it and got his secretary to filter it, not because he didn't know how, but he felt far too many people were trying to get his attention as it was, and the last thing he needed was a direct channel they could use. So another very important thing his secretary did was make judgement calls about who deserved that attention... not something to trust to an AI, I would think).