Ada Lovelace Day—Sample Edit

It’s Ada Lovelace Day! We have this board game called Lovelace and Babbage. I have yet to play it, so I’m taking the opportunity today to learn. I was intrigued some years ago to find out that Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron. I had heard about him since high school, but her? Never.

I’m celebrating Ada Lovelace by posting a sample of my work.

For this sample edit, I had ChatGPT generate some mistake-laden content. I supplemented ChatGPT with some types of edits I do frequently. Then I turned on track changes to edit it as if I am speaking to an author who has requested a sample edit. Many times I am asked for examples of my work, a request that is often uncomfortable because I have a confidential relationship with text authors. If I can say one good thing for ChatGPT, it’s that I don’t need to protect that confidential relationship!



The watercolor portrait of Ada Lovelace [c. 1840] is attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860). The photographic reproduction from Wikimedia Commons is of a work in the public domain. {{PD-US-expired}}