Tuesday, 10 March 2026
- Grammarly's Expert Way of Pissing People Off ★
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From Casey Newton:
Indeed, no one asked me for permission to use my name in this way, much less compensate me for whatever expert-reviewing labor my AI clone was apparently now doing on my behalf. (An annual subscription to Grammarly costs $144.)
I’ve long assumed that before too long, AI might take my job. I just assumed that someone would tell me when it happened.
This whole Grammarly thing is so dumb.
It’s one thing to make a shitty feature that deceives its users into thinking they’re getting legitimate feedback from well-respected figures, but it’s even worse to use the name of said figures without them knowing. Grammarly’s days are truly numbered, it seems — that they’re grasping for relevance in such a way. Shame, was a fan of it once.