Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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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 authors...

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out
Image: The Verge

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 authors far more famous than us. Grammarly's new "Expert Review" feature uses our names to give its AI suggestions credibility that they don't deserve.

Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash - but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn't know it …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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