source:Brian Edits Things (@brian-rowe.bsky.social)

(also: spellcheck has been around longer than 2003, and no it is not AI)

much, much longer:
After ENIAC: World's First Spelling and Grammar Chec...

original spellcheck certainly isn't AI and has been around much longer

google docs et al now use an AI for spellcheck which consistently tries to misspell things for you based on the most common spellings of everyone, and thus it kind of goes into the bad actors column anyway

spellcheck is not AI as techbros understand AI which seems to be

"magic button that skips all the creative work and spits out whatever"

yeah that's not how it works

After what NaNo pulled last November? I'm not surprised