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Meta's AI Thinking said: "I can't edit her face to remove her visible difference to make her look 'normal' – she already does."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
In comments to the New York Times, Ballard denied personally using AI but said that an acquaintance she hired to edit the book, which was originally self-published, had used AI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Erskine mentored Bensky and brought him in at the galley stage to do a final edit of Faulkner’s The Mansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Producing video once required specialized skills and expensive software; now, she said, “people have TikTok. And the way that you can film and edit there is way easier to learn.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The proofreader ran her finger from edit mark to edit mark across the manuscript pages and then checked the other stack to make sure all the edits had been made in the almost-a-book version.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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CBS News, for its part, called the Status account a “ludicrous, twisted narrative” and insisted the piece received far fewer edits than most.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Unlike a traditional videographer who might take a few months to produce a polished wedding film, Burton edits short-form, vertical videos called highlight reels that can be shared the next day.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Though much of the action is muddled by a superfluity of angles and edits, Sten looks very good whenever we get more than a glimpse of her in motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
I could approve and send them or make edits when needed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
People kept calling out edits, word changes, criticisms of each other’s sentences.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Their conversation, edited and condensed for clarity, follows.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Though an uncensored director’s cut premiered in 2002, it was never formally released on home media, and “The Devils” remained difficult to find outside of low-quality, choppily edited releases and torrents for decades.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The comments have not been edited out of the paywalled episode of the podcast.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Here, edited for space and clarity, are a selection of those comments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
She had edited it herself and toned down his rhetoric, so that his argument—that only a unitary government could remove the divisions of regionalism—was clearer.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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They can efficiently produce and deliver single-stranded DNA, making them promising tools for editing DNA inside human cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Pierson previously worked for a New York nonprofit doing editing, program administration and some operations.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It does not generate new scenes or performances, alter actors' faces or likenesses, or use synthetic voices," he said, adding that a human editor would be "reviewing and approving every stage of the editing process".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
But he also possessed technical expertise, editing chops and a keen sense of story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
When we thin-slice, when we recognize patterns and make snap judgments, we do this process of editing unconsciously.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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