AI can’t really spell check without risking changing the meaning of sentences. Spell checking was a solved problem before this.

AI certainly is the shiny new hammer, and it is tempting to see the world as nails.

Traditional methods might not be perfect, but they also easily fit in the memory of even low power devices. Perhaps it isn't a problem worth burning a dollar of tokens for every spelling mistake.

The fact that it produces correctly spelled words says nothing about it’s ability to find spelling mistakes or to correct them without errors like completely changing the word.

> What would be a better way to incorporate AI as a spell checker?

Don't do a stupid thing like that in the first place.

> In comparison to non-AI traditional tools, AI has the advantage of "understanding" the text, reducing the number of "stupid" mis-corrections.

I doubt it, but if that's true, run a normal spell checker, and then give the output to your LLM to filter.

> what is there to gain by interfacing it with traditional solutions,

About a billionfold improvement in compute efficiency, and a lower error rate.

> and how can it be achieved?

10 seconds of actual thought.

>What would be a better way to incorporate AI as a spell checker?

You just don't need AI to do spell checking. It's a waste of energy, bandwidth and tokens. It's like Java Enterprise Fizz-Buzz - 1000x more complicated than it needs to be and complete overkill.

But at least you can tell your manager you're using AI!

I am skeptical that AI brings any benefit to spell checking at all.