That moment a stranger showed me how AI catches what I miss

Last Tuesday at a coffee shop in Portland, this older woman watched me feed a stack of handwritten notes into a scanning app and asked if it could tell when a page was skipped. I laughed and said probably not, but she pulled out her phone and ran one of those free AI document tools, it flagged a torn corner I'd ignored for 3 minutes. We spent twenty minutes testing it on receipts and sticky notes, and now I'm wondering how many small errors my own eyes just slide past. Has anyone else had a random stranger point out a blind spot in how you use AI day to day?

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johnh821mo ago

Is it bad that my first thought was "great, now my scanner can judge me too"? I've definitely missed whole pages before, so maybe I'm the one who needs the AI.

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