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For all his waxing on its problems, Fatsis delights in the dictionary, and his prose teems with enthusiasm. And the dictionary, for all its flux in recent years, is now on pretty solid ground. Merriam-Webster still sells about 1.5 million print dictionaries a year, a modest but respectable sum. And its website has seen well over a billion visitors in the last 12 months. After some years of contraction and cringe—the brief stretch of viral Twitter clapbacks from the dictionary’s account in 2016 and 2017 was a low point—Merriam-Webster is still here. Its team, by and large, still tries to engage with the world as it changes. Lately, that’s meant Greg Barlow, the president of Merriam-Webster, going on the radio to talk about what human editors do that artificial intelligence cannot. “AI tries to figure out what the definition is,” he told Kai Ryssdal on Marketplace in October. “At Merriam-Webster, we actually write the definition. We create it, invent it, so it can’t be wrong.”
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