Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, has pulled the plug on its Expert Review feature after writers discovered that the AI was generating suggestions supposedly “inspired by” their published work, without their knowledge or consent.
The feature, which launched back in August, used third-party LLMs to surface writing suggestions styled after influential writers and experts. The problem? Those experts had no idea their work was being used this way.
Did Grammarly actually ask anyone?
No, Grammarly did not obtain permission from the people whose likenesses were used as expert references. While other AI companies also scrape data from online libraries and websites without explicitly asking permission, they at least did not use anyone’s likeness so blatantly. This is where Grammarly went off the rails.
GrammarlyThe backlash began after The Verge’s editor-in-chief and several staff members discovered that their names were being used as style references
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