Frannie Sprouls

avid reader. cat enthusiast. nerd. she/they

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

"People seem to expect ChatGPT to be another Google where you pull factual information. . . . ChatGPT is not answering your question, it’s coming up with a reasonable answer." —christian wilkie #ACES2024

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

"The reason that [AI is] not inherently a bad thing all the time, it makes us so much faster. If we know how to make the tool work, we can turn around material faster. . . . it can augment our abilities." —erin servais (@GrammarParty) #ACES2024

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

"We can still go to the books, we can still learn from other editors. … AI will get smarter but humans will still be the differentiator." —Corinne Jorgensen #ACES2024

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

"We are the ones using the tools. You’re making conscious decisions about what you’re using. The human should be the last word." well, said @ebrenner. #ACES2024

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

first question is about disclosing AI usage on projects. at @guerrero, we do disclose when AI is used in our writing process: https://t.co/QCcyUs72Lz. and i used @DragonflyEdit when building our policy! #ACES2024

[Frannie Sprouls @Frannie_Sprouls]

using twitter for the first time in years for #ACES2024. first up is the peril and promise of AI for editing. 🤖

[Heather Hogan @theheatherhogan]

Somebody asked what “my deal is” with cats, and: They’re little goblins that could absolutely kill you but instead they choose to sleep on your chest and vibrate at the exact correct frequency to lower your blood pressure and stress hormones! They’re perfect, is what my DEAL IS.

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Now THAT is cloud cover. This evening in Chicago. #weather #storm #chicago #ilwx

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Media outlets are going to rush to ask Black people to react to this.

Meanwhile, white women benefit the most from affirmative action and DEI policies.

Y’all should also be sticking the mics and cameras in their faces.

But yall won’t because we all kn… *signal drops*

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Wow. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent.

[Kristen Steenbeeke @ksteenbeeke]

Copyeditors at the New Yorker be like “In my in-box there’s an e-mail from a teen-ager who won’t coöperate in the reëlection, instead focussing on his début Web site”

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I don't know why Lance Armstrong woke up one morning recently and decided that trans athletes and "fairness in sports" should be a topic that needs his public exploration, but I do have thoughts on all this and context for those without it. (thread)

[Talia Lavin @mobydickenergy]

me in 2020: wow there is really a shortage of books and memoirs and reported experiences about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. i wonder why??

me in 2023: so we all just memory holed covid and are never gonna talk about That Whole Thing again huh