Discussion

• @shannon_liao Shannon Liao on x

  often when a writer turned in a story to me and there was a typo, they would tell me, grammarly didn't catch the typo. it sounded like the experience was already quite degraded at that point

• @jbillinson Josh Billinson on x

  I have Grammarly installed mostly to catch typos and it used to be pretty good for that but now it will very frequently do useless stuff like insert a comma into the middle of a word

• @youwouldntpost Miles Klee on x

  Once a basic proofreading tool, Grammarly now bristles with AI features and a suite of “expert” agents based on real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including a historian who died in January. …

• @manishakrishnan Manisha Krishnan on bluesky

  Grammarly's new AI tools necromance famous dead authors, and “humanize” copy to make it sound less robotic.  But it also failed to detect obvious plagiarism when @milesklee.bsky.social tried it: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

• @ceaubin.com C. E. Aubin on bluesky

  I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.  —  Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.  [ima…

• @campuscodi.risky.biz Catalin Cimpanu on bluesky

  This is why I dropped them last year... too much focus on AI bullshit... too little actual grammar mistake prompts  —  They also trashed their web UI, which sometimes required 2-3 interactions with the mouse for what used to be simple keyboard shortcuts.  A literal UI/UX seppuku …