That could well end up being a very demonstrative experiment about the need and benefit of having human people research, digest, and explain actual facts, yes 
John,
with all due respect, but how is the AI answer better? The manual’s answer seems to be even more concise and to the point, it seems… 
Which does not negate my feature request for a tightly curated, private, interactive/AI-based help system.
The AI answer is better because it provides information about what to do if you have already copied the music and the dynamics and wish to unlink them plus other important related information. I would have had to do additional searches to find that other information, and I am not sure what words I would have to used and how much time it would have taken.
The 2 related links at the bottom – to “Linked dynamics” and “Linked slurs” – take you to the corresponding information in the manual; nested under each are the steps for both manually linking and manually unlinking slurs and dynamics.
Where there might be connected information elsewhere in the manual, either further information about something referenced on the page or likely ‘next steps’, then generally you’ll find the related links at the bottom helpful. Those aren’t auto-generated: I put them there….
The one thing that would improve Dorico’s result is a link to the article on Unlinking dynamics, which I agree would be a useful addition under Related links in the manual (there already is a link to Disabling auto-linking under the Unlinking dynamics article).
The “additional tips” though are quite dubious. The first one is labeled “Preventing Auto-grouping”, making it seem like this is an actual thing you can do, only to kill that dream in the second sentence. The second “tip” fails to mention that Duplicate to Staff Below does something else entirely (it merges your source material with the existing material rather than overwriting it), but more importantly it ends with suggesting that regular copy/paste in Dorico is somehow unpredictable, which frankly I think is absurd (because it isn’t). All in all I’m not convinced. 
Thank you @Lillie_Harris The problem for me with the provided additional links is that I have to look through so much additional information to find what I am looking for. AI went through that information and presented exactly what was relevant to me.
Being an impatient person, I prefer this approach, which reminds me of the old Finale manuals which, if I remember correctly, anticipated the users needs in such cases and presented the information immediately within that particular location.
@Zalde You may be right about AI needlessly casting doubt on Dorico’s pasting abilities; I am not enough of an expert to know. But whatever it is talking about, it had no net effect and I got the information I needed plus a little more that was helpful.
Thanks for your posts, Lillie. I wasn’t aware of the search capabilities of the online version - as a regular user of the PDF version of the manual I feel like I’ve been living in the dark ages!
The big advantages Google has are accessibility and experience. We use it heaven knows how many times a day and we’ve learned how to get the most out of it. It doesn’t mean it’s better - it’s means it’s right there when we need it.
I’m really intrigued by the example you’ve used - “turn off dynamic linking. etc.” - and found myself wondering whether it might be possible to have the search function in this forum not just highlighting posts from the forum but also showing results from the manual. That, too, would be right there when we need it.
And wouldn’t you know it… this just happened.
Would like to, but I’m not the Topic Starter
I might try to craft a human-made post that makes you think it’s by AI - kind of a reverse of the usual idea.
I’m not sure how exactly to go about that though.
Lots of semicolons and em dashes would be a start, LOL!
Like this:
I might attempt to create a human-made post that deceives you into believing it’s AI-generated – essentially a reverse of the typical approach. However, I’m unsure of the best way to achieve this.
Cite non-existent sources. AI is good at doing that.
Hey — I naturally use those!
Thanks, Lillie! I have found that doing what you say here almost always gets me to an answer to my question. You have done an AWESOME job with the manual.
THANK YOU!
That’s sad
As an author, I use both liberally, because I know how and when to use them.
I used AI for a project and it was really helpful:
Creating a combo template for an eBook reader to use on a marching fork.
From pixel to millimeter and suggesting the right font size for readability AI created a complete to-do list for all settings I had to go through in Dorico.
Not everything was ready to use but it saved me a lot of time and reduced the try and error parts by a good amount.
On the other hand AI suggested to make some imaginative settings here and there. It’s helpful to know an app before asking an AI about details.
Thank you very much @laughreyg , that’s lovely to hear