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Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. ‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge. ‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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 edi

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Mar 12, 2026·MashableT2 · Outlet report
Grammarly removes AI feature which used real authors' identities, faces class action lawsuit

Grammarly has pulled its AI-powered Expert Review feature after being called out for using journalists' and authors' identities without permission. The writing assistant software is now facing a class action lawsuit accusing it of…

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Grammarly removes AI feature which used real authors' identities, faces class action lawsuit

Grammarly has pulled its AI-powered Expert Review feature after being called out for using journalists' and authors' identities without permission. The writing assistant software is now facing a class action lawsuit…

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Grammarly Allegedly ‘Misappropriated’ Names of Journalists, Says Class Action Suit

Last week, Wired’s Miles Klee reported on Grammarly’s AI text editing feature, called “Expert Review” which uses the names of journalists and other literary figures in conjunction with revision advice for writers. These…

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission

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Grammarly has pulled its AI-powered Expert Review feature after being called out for using journalists' and authors' identities without permission. The writing assistant software is now facing a class action lawsuit accusing it of…

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T2 · Outlet reportGizmodoMar 12, 2026

Last week, Wired’s Miles Klee reported on Grammarly’s AI text editing feature, called “Expert Review” which uses the names of journalists and other literary figures in conjunction with revision advice for writers. These experts—including…

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