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This ‘anti-Grammarly’ AI tool adds typos to your emails on purpose (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Aatube@piefed.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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"I tested Sinceerly by cold emailing 5 Fortune 500 CEOs. 4 CEOs replied. Of those replies, each was under 10 words. 2 replies had typos. One reply called me Larry (my name is Ben)."

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because it’s a service using cloud AI. Processing text uses tokens, tokens cost money, hence the subscription fee.

It’s a dumb app - deliberately so - but it costs money to run and a one-off payment won’t cut it if people start using it to modify hundreds or thousands of emails.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it really needs AI, something this basic should be able to use a tiny AI model that can run locally. Google are working on building small models into Chrome for example (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in). It really doesn't need a huge model.

Several mobile apps bundle an AI model with them. Samsung phones do a bunch of AI things on-device, including object and face recognition in the Gallery app for photos. There's no reason an extension couldn't do that.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

does it need to use AI though?

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a good point.

Imagine just a script that randomly replacing various homophones like their, they're and there.

Or has a percentage chance of swapping two letters because you types too fast.

Or just a table of common misspellings would be enough.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

i was also thinking of replacing letters with ones close on the keyboard or removing letters