Apparently, yes.
The bad news is that it wasn’t perfect…the good news is that I guess it wasn’t bad.
I was playing around with the Hemingway Online AI editor to see what it was all about. In my case, I didn’t write anything new with it. Instead, I let it check my previous writing. In this case, it was yesterday’s post about file formats.
I visited the Hemingway Online website, deleted its demo text and copied/pasted my blog post. The images didn’t come across and that was OK with me. It probably makes sense to a writing assistant although I thought the images helped with the complete post.
Here is its analysis.
I haven’t had my writing that marked up since I was in Grade 6!
So, what it did catch?
I’m going to write off (sic) the “hard-to-read” complaint. It was kind of a technical article. I’m sure that it was the first time that the application had seen “OSAPAC”.
Thank goodness that you can find any article on the internet to support any position. I’ll defend my Grade 6 readability with this. I acknowledge that I have no intention of writing the next great Canadian novel.
It was an interesting experience but a bit humbling. I know that there are a few English teachers who are regular readers and they haven’t checked me. At least to my knowledge, anyway.
What about you? Would you use an AI assistant to analyze your writing?
doug -- off the record 
Please share your thoughts here. I’d enjoy reading them.