Can AI replace developmental editors?
I think not...
Why would I open this can of worms? AI must be the most polarising subject in the arts world at the moment. Because I recently had an email from a software developer who’s working on an AI tool to provide writers with some of the functions of a developmental editor. She wanted to hire me as a consultant to help her develop the tool.
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The developer should be working on AI tools to help editors do their job better, not an end-to-end solution to put into the hands of writers. Results from other fields suggests the former approach could boost performance of all but the best developmental editors, but the latter will just lead to confusion and wasted time.
"A developmental editor has story intuition, which is not about data sets, but about being human, a human who is sensitive to the way books work." Couldn't agree more, Roz!