spag.inputfrom.ai (grammar.inputfrom.ai)

Content was written by a human, with only spelling, punctuation, and grammar input from AI

The author promises that they wrote this content themselves, and only used AI to do a final scan over the content to spot spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.

The author is solely responsible for the content: research, drafting, structuring, editorial, citations, references, and so on. Any mistakes, bias, tropes or puns in the content are the author's, and the author's alone. However, an LLM was used to do a final pass over the content to look for spelling, punctuation, and grammar fixes that traditional software may not have caught.

Why use AI for SPAG?

You might wonder why, when Word has had spelling, punctuation, and grammar tools since the ’90s, you'd use an AI for this. Well, it's not just drinking water and consuming energy for nothing — language models are probabilistic machines trained on huge amounts of human content, so they can often better determine the likely intent of the author. Take, for example, the sentence:

Let's eat Grandma.

This sentence is grammatically correct — all the SPAG checks pass. But when a large language model looks at it in context, it may well determine that the author actually meant:

Let's eat, Grandma.

These two sentences have vastly different meanings. LLMs can catch many such subtle mistakes that traditional software may not.

This page's SPAG prompt

This page has had a SPAG pass via an LLM using the prompt:

Re-output this content with any spelling, punctuation, or grammar mistakes fixed. Do not attempt to otherwise "improve" the content.