CrapConnoisseur

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[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's the most likely scenario, but remember that when so few people bought checkmarks, Musk just randomly assigned them to influential people to make Blue look more credible/in demand than it actually was.

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If I never see another goddamn unzip in my life I will die happy lmao

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I have ADHD, and my dad has both ADHD and mild autism. Our conversations are like a series of neverending TED Talks about everything from cat behavior to mechanical engineering.

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! For now I'm using Claude, as suggested by @mkhoury@lemmy.ca. But as soon as I get a moment I'll try this out, as it seems like it would be the best long-term solution.

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THANK YOU! This seemed to be the best for me, with a couple of caveats (as of July 20, 2023, for anybody who has this issue in the future):

1. When I just asked Claude if it could change a chunk of text from second to third (without giving it the text yet) it told me it couldn't as it doesn't have the capability to edit documents. Given its ability to process large chunks of text, that seemed strange to me, so next I just rolled it into one prompt. I told it I need a large chunk of text changed from second to third person, and then just pasted the text into the same prompt. It immediately started spitting out the text I needed!

2. For whatever reason, it couldn't do the full amount of text (which is around 4,900 words). However, it did about half, which is still way better than ChatGPT. So rather than stitching together something like 6 chunks of text, I only had to paste two chunks. Super simple.

3. The output wasn't quite as sophisticated as ChatGPT - it removed formatting, and was more repetitive in how it handled the conversion (but still far better than using Word's Find and Replace feature, lol). For my purposes this isn't an issue, but for others it may be.

So thank you again for this solution. This is what I'll be using going forward.

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work for a university. And this is honestly something that we shouldn't be asked for, as the group that asks for this could still understand everything perfectly well in second person. Since my job requires a lot of specialized knowledge and skills, it's a completely stupid use of our time, but try telling them that....

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I did just try it, but ChatGPT was completely arbitrary about how much it would let me feed into it. So sometimes it wouldn't process the entire chunk that the splitter thought it should be able to process. No fault of the Splitter developers, of course - ChatGPT was just completely inconsistent about its limits. :/

 

Hey all,

So one of the most pointless and infuriating parts of my job involves changing large portions of text from second person to third person. It's not enough to simply use Find and Replace in Word - the converted text has to actually make sense and not be super repetitive. It seems so easy, but I can't find an AI that can do this for large chunks of text; generally I'd need to convert around 5000 words each time, sometimes more. Because of the volume of my other work, I just don't have time to chop it up into pieces for ChatGPT.

Does anybody know of a tool that can do this? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Supposedly Google Bard can handle up to 20,000 words, but because my documents have bullet points and other formatting it completely throws it off. Even after pasting into Notepad and back into Bard, Bard still couldn't handle as many words as ChatGPT. It's so frustrating, because it seems like such an easy ask.