Adjust · How much? · it guesses
Element 81
Say 'a bit more' and let it judge how much.
shorter · warmer · more formal
First known
Opened
2020Wordtune (AI21 Labs): pick a sentence and ask for it more casual, more formal, shorter or longer; the model decides how far to go.
See also: Telling ChatGPT 'make it shorter', from 30 Nov 2022.
“choose to either completely rewrite sentences, make them more casual, more formal, shorter, or longer.”
A relative edit button, with the model choosing how much, shipped two years before chat assistants made it a habit.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 81 — operate freely
Ask for it a bit shorter, again and again. Then a bit warmer.
Fig. 81 — Tweak
000 readings · idle
Down the Adjust column
Read down and Dial gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Tweak takes.
- shorter
- warmer
- more formal
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Tweak, and its old address lands here.
- NudgeRenamedThe same act, under a name that says what it does.