There are many benefits to using AI to edit your work, the most obvious one being the time saved. An AI tool will give a report on your work almost instantly. Money is also saved, AI typically being cheaper (or free) than an editor. In the current economic climate anything that saves money is a good thing, and AI is no different so long as you understand its limitations.
AI, by its nature, is inflexible. It is excellent to use as a preliminary editing tool, but it can only perform to the limits of its training. AI training uses other authors’ work – a controversial topic on its own given the vast number of authors finding out their books have been used, unauthorised and unpaid, to train AI – and when correcting your work chooses the most standard corrections or substitutions, making your writing also ‘standard’, your unique author voice smoothed out. Do you want your work to read like every other book out there?
An AI tool will use its vast database to offer rewording that may not reflect the original meaning, because it will choose the most frequently used option, and it lacks the finer understanding of nuance that a human reader has. It will also offer a standard option that gives a typically ‘flat’ style.
AI is a tool, which used in the right way will save you both time and money. As a tool, it has limits. Artificial intelligence can’t think, it can only offer solutions based on its programming. It’s a machine so it can’t feel the writing the same way a human will. It will analyse, but within its limitations. It can’t understand nuances in writing, and it doesn’t know when to break the rules of grammar for effect.
Due to the limitations of AI editing, consider using a human proofreader to check your manuscript before publishing. Proofing is typically cheaper than a full edit, and a proofreader will pick up the issues AI misses, including incorrect word choice, minor grammatical errors, and unintentional changes in meaning.
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