Grammarly's AI Feedback Echoes Names Without Consent
TL;DR
Grammarly's Expert Review AI surfaces feedback supposedly inspired by well-known experts and journalists, but The Verge found attributions to editors and writers made without their permission and with questionable sources; Grammarly says it does not claim endorsements, only inspiration from publicly available works, yet the feature has crashed and linked to dubious sources, raising privacy, consent, and attribution concerns about who the AI can imitate and cite.
- Grammarly is using our identities without permission The Verge
- Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive WIRED
- When You’re an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly — But You Didn’t Know It The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors Futurism
- Grammarly launches AI tool using personas of dead academics Morning, Trojan
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