(Doing my bit corner: I just had to check the copy-edits on a novel this past week. Tor Production insists authors use Microsoft Word. But Word now includes an LLM. And my contract with Tor warrants that the novel is entirely my own work; use of an LLM would arguably put me in breach of contract. So that's my excuse for going against their express orders and using LibreOffice … which is finally mature enough to digest a change-tracked book, with comments, and not screw everything up.
And I was up-front about it and they're treating me as a semi-official guinea pig, so it might gain traction. As my editor is an editorial director there, and also uses LibreOffice because -- hello -- he doesn't like LLMs either, it's probably going to be all the rage by next year. And meanwhile, I'm getting close to cancelling my Office365 subscription next month because the only use I have for it is checking copy edits on one book a year reliably.
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Date: 2025-05-20 06:55 pm (UTC)Preach it, brother!
(Doing my bit corner: I just had to check the copy-edits on a novel this past week. Tor Production insists authors use Microsoft Word. But Word now includes an LLM. And my contract with Tor warrants that the novel is entirely my own work; use of an LLM would arguably put me in breach of contract. So that's my excuse for going against their express orders and using LibreOffice … which is finally mature enough to digest a change-tracked book, with comments, and not screw everything up.
And I was up-front about it and they're treating me as a semi-official guinea pig, so it might gain traction. As my editor is an editorial director there, and also uses LibreOffice because -- hello -- he doesn't like LLMs either, it's probably going to be all the rage by next year. And meanwhile, I'm getting close to cancelling my Office365 subscription next month because the only use I have for it is checking copy edits on one book a year reliably.