Grammarly faces class action lawsuit as journalist challenges identity-stealing AI feature

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature

Julia Angwin, an award-winning investigative journalist who founded The Markup, a nonprofit news organization that covers the impact of technology on society, is the only named plaintiff in the suit, which does not call for a specific amount in damages but argues that damages across the plaintiff

Grammarly Is Offering 'Expert' AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors -- Dead or Alive

Do you have fond memories of being a teacher's pet? Wish you could still get notes from your favorite college professor? Dream about some implacable voice of authority correcting your every word choice and punctuation mark? Well, great news: a certain software company has engineered a way to

One of Grammarly's 'experts' is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature

For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its "Expert Review" AI suggestions without getting their permission, and now it's facing a lawsuit from one of the journalists included, as previously reported by Wired. The class-action complaint filed by

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission

Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra: Back in August, we launched a Grammarly agent called Expert Review. The agent draws on publicly available information from third-party LLMs to surface writing suggestions inspired by the published work of influential voices. Over the past week, we received valid

Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers

Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools. In August, the company launched a feature called Expert Review that would offer feedback on your writing, offering AI-generated feedback that would appear to come from a famous

Grammarly Allegedly â€~Misappropriated’ Names of Journalists, Says Class Action Suit

The Grammarly Expert Review feature included the names of writers and literary figures without consulting them first. Last week, Wired’s Miles Klee reported on Grammarly’s AI text editing feature, called “Expert Review†which uses the names of journalists and other literary figures in

Grammarly will keep using authors' identities without permission unless they opt out

Last week, my colleagues discovered that Superhuman's Grammarly had turned me into an AI editor, using my real name, without ever asking my permission. They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and -- as Wired initially reported last Wednesday -- many

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors

Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Grammarly is being accused of "necromancy" after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of real professors -- some of whom have already left this mortal coil. The issue was first flagged by Verena

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Grammarly's "expert review" feature offers to give users writing advice "inspired by" subject matter experts, including recently-deceased professors, as Wired reported on Wednesday. When I tried the feature out myself, I found some experts that came as a surprise for a different reason -- one of

Grammarly Disables AI 'Expert Review' After Backlash From Authors and Journalists - Decrypt

The company said it will redesign the feature to give experts more control over how they are represented. Popular writing assistant platform Grammarly said on Wednesday that it has disabled its Expert Review AI feature following online backlash and criticism that the tool used the identities and

Grammarly shuts down "Expert Review" after pushback from the real experts - SiliconANGLE

Grammarly shuts down "Expert Review" after pushback from the real experts After lighting the ire of journalists, academics, and authors this week, Superhuman Platform Inc. this week pulled a feature from Grammarly that impersonated writers. The "Expert Review" let users of Grammarly improve their

'Obscene': Grammarly's New AI Tool Offers Writing Feedback From Dead Scholars - Decrypt

Critics question whether the company can use scholars' identities without consent. Grammarly's new AI feature that provides writing feedback from the purported perspective of noted "experts" is drawing criticism from academics who say the tool appears to "resurrect" scholars to review users'

Grammarly AI "Expert Review" Cites Real Experts Without Consent

Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" feature attributes its writing suggestions to prominent individuals and claims that it draws on their advice. However, these individuals may not be aware that the grammar-correction tool is associating their names and credentials with its suggestions. When