Grammarly is using our identities without permission

The Verge

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Author: Stevie Bonifield

A screenshot of a draft Verge post in Google Docs with an AI-generated Grammarly comment using Nilay Patel’s name


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 them was my boss.

The AI-generated feedback included comments that appeared to be from The Verge's editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, as well as editor-at-large David Pierce and senior editors Sean Hollister and Tom Warren, none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them in the "expert reviews."

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The feature, which launched in August, claims to h …

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