Compliance is an editorial problem.
Twenty-five years of editorial work, applied to problems that are usually handed to developers.
Thoughts and Queries
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Hundreds of professionals have been publicly embarrassed after trusting generative AI; don’t be next. My article on prompts showed some ways to help shape AI responses, provide more guidance for better results, and avoid some levels of hallucination. However, prompts are not enough. Research identifies significant risks inherent to AI output (Bender et al. 2021).…
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Few things are more upsetting than having an editor or proofreader “correct” something that is already correct. Yes, hypercorrections are as real as they are bothersome. Here are a few common misunderstandings that lead to hypercorrections. Consult the references at the end for further reading. A Myriad of or Myriad Myriad can be a noun…
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Users are seeing low-quality content, wrong answers, hallucinated facts, and other unbelievable output from AI. The output is so prevalent on the internet that Merriam-Webster made slop the Word of the Year in 2025. The masses do not like it. In fact, only about 10% of Americans are more excited than concerned about AI. But…