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by mattkrause 20 days ago
Isn't this pretty much why language models were invented?

Pasting something directly into the chat interface seems weird, but if you could somehow just see where P(token | context) falls off a cliff, that's a pretty good hint that your writing has problem.

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Yeah, but for this use case you don't need Claude. You probably want a tuned lightweight small model that can run locally.

Even Haiku is massive overkill for this use case.

I've done it to check transcriptions of handwritten 19th century Quebec French. Is there a dedicated spell checker for that?