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MoPE contains over 100 examples of copy editing errors from English-language news publications. The examples are mostly from publications owned by The New York Times Company (NYT, Wirecutter and The Athletic), primarily because the Internet has developed somewhat of a sport in playing grammar police for them. But also because The Times has high editing standards, so the errors that sneak through are often grammatically interesting.
GPT-4 has a 54% error rate on the task of identifying the word with an error or the word closest to the error.
The dataset is maintained by the editors of Machines on Paper. We would love to add copy errors from other publications. You can send suggestions to hello@machinesonpaper.com.