Hi Friends,
It's been a while! I'm here because today I launched the beta signups for TextSpark AI: a playful new AI co-writing tool that we've been alpha testing for the last few months. It helps authors and writers brainstorm new ideas, push through writer's block, and speed up their writing by co-editing along with their story and picking up context from the last several hundred words they've recently written (including style, characters, and voice).
It also has all the basic tools we've come to expect from many of the popular writing programs (available for free in a web-based framework), and it will offer a baseline level of generated words free of charge every month so that it's accessible to writers of all income levels. I wanted to share it with you and invite you to come and help us make the best possible writing tool for professional author use cases. You can check it out and sign up for beta here:
https://textspark.ai/
I'm very much aware that the topic of AI writing acceleration is... touchy... to say the least, with many authors, and that opinions run hot on both sides. In showing this to alpha testers, responses ranged from "This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen and I love it and want it now" to "This is the work of the devil, you're a monster for building it, burn it down, this is trash, why would you do this to the industry, you have no morals."
And I completely understand both perspectives. This tech can be scary. It scared me as an author when I first saw it too.
I played with GPT-2 last year and realized that it wasn't really there in terms of quality to help with writing. But this summer I got the chance to play with the latest AI models (GPT-3 and custom trained/modified models like ours) among them... and I was stunned. The tech is here whether we're ready for it or not, and it's only going to get better. When I realized that many authors are quietly using this tech right now to enhance their writing practice and that it was only available to the lucky, tech-savvy, and well-connected, that didn't sit well with me.
So I talked to some ML specialists, got busy, and built TextSpark. Now, at least, the playing field is more even and the tech will be accessible to everyone. Our model is already good for many use cases, and models like ours will continue to improve in writing quality over the next few years. I'd like to invite all of you to come, check it out, play with it, and use it--or not! It's entirely up to you if it can help you or not.
What I've found in working with it is that it's NOT an author replacement (and it's not intended to be). It works best as an accelerator that you shape and edit as you go, calling it in to push through scenes where you feel stuck so you can stay in the flow. And it's really fun to write with, even if you decide that it's not to your taste for longform prose. It feels a lot like improv--riffing on fun concepts and calling in a pal to toss you a few words that might spark some new creativity here and there.
There are many different writers with different goals, needs, writing styles, and skill levels out there, and I really believe that this tool will help many of them. I wanted to make this brief announcement so people who are interested can check it out. I hope you'll come help us make the best tool possible and ensure that AI acceleration isn't only for the lucky, connected, or highly tech-savvy people out there.
Sincerely,
Alexis Radcliff
TextSpark AI
It's been a while! I'm here because today I launched the beta signups for TextSpark AI: a playful new AI co-writing tool that we've been alpha testing for the last few months. It helps authors and writers brainstorm new ideas, push through writer's block, and speed up their writing by co-editing along with their story and picking up context from the last several hundred words they've recently written (including style, characters, and voice).
It also has all the basic tools we've come to expect from many of the popular writing programs (available for free in a web-based framework), and it will offer a baseline level of generated words free of charge every month so that it's accessible to writers of all income levels. I wanted to share it with you and invite you to come and help us make the best possible writing tool for professional author use cases. You can check it out and sign up for beta here:
https://textspark.ai/
I'm very much aware that the topic of AI writing acceleration is... touchy... to say the least, with many authors, and that opinions run hot on both sides. In showing this to alpha testers, responses ranged from "This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen and I love it and want it now" to "This is the work of the devil, you're a monster for building it, burn it down, this is trash, why would you do this to the industry, you have no morals."
And I completely understand both perspectives. This tech can be scary. It scared me as an author when I first saw it too.
I played with GPT-2 last year and realized that it wasn't really there in terms of quality to help with writing. But this summer I got the chance to play with the latest AI models (GPT-3 and custom trained/modified models like ours) among them... and I was stunned. The tech is here whether we're ready for it or not, and it's only going to get better. When I realized that many authors are quietly using this tech right now to enhance their writing practice and that it was only available to the lucky, tech-savvy, and well-connected, that didn't sit well with me.
So I talked to some ML specialists, got busy, and built TextSpark. Now, at least, the playing field is more even and the tech will be accessible to everyone. Our model is already good for many use cases, and models like ours will continue to improve in writing quality over the next few years. I'd like to invite all of you to come, check it out, play with it, and use it--or not! It's entirely up to you if it can help you or not.
What I've found in working with it is that it's NOT an author replacement (and it's not intended to be). It works best as an accelerator that you shape and edit as you go, calling it in to push through scenes where you feel stuck so you can stay in the flow. And it's really fun to write with, even if you decide that it's not to your taste for longform prose. It feels a lot like improv--riffing on fun concepts and calling in a pal to toss you a few words that might spark some new creativity here and there.
There are many different writers with different goals, needs, writing styles, and skill levels out there, and I really believe that this tool will help many of them. I wanted to make this brief announcement so people who are interested can check it out. I hope you'll come help us make the best tool possible and ensure that AI acceleration isn't only for the lucky, connected, or highly tech-savvy people out there.
Sincerely,
Alexis Radcliff
TextSpark AI