An Ethical Question

[Ken Corbett]

When I write on my puter, I use a program, of course.

So today I noticed a blue underline to a particularly purple bit of my prose.

So I click, and it prompts me with an alternate sentence construction. Then it invites me to use its suggested parsing instead of mine with just a click.

It is actually better. Should I take it?

Ken

[Elle Rush]

This happens. Of course it is up to you, the author as to which works best and if the programs suggestion works best, it's still yours, they are your words.. just rephrased a bit.
Sometimes I click ignore, but other times I think the syntax is better so I use it.
I don't feel it poses an ethical question because if you had not predetermined the verbage, the program wouldn't have known what to do with it, right?

[PoetOfSerendipity]

Hi Ken,

If you picked up a thesaurus to look at a synonym, and you liked the word better, would you use it? Would it still be yours?

That's the way I would look at it... another tool at your disposal... you are still the artist, and still make the final decision.

If it's a moral dilemma about whether or not you should give the credit to the computer as an artist... only Dr. Phil can answer that one! LOL

Hope that helps.