Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more
Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
The Verge Nilay Patel
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Discussion
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@joshtaylor
Josh Taylor
on bluesky
Wild interview, very frustrating responses lol www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
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@seanhollister
Sean Hollister
on bluesky
Incredible @reckless.bsky.social interview with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, after his Grammarly used our identities without permission. — Nilay does not let up: — www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
on bluesky
Today's listen. NGL, I did skip to the part where Nilay asks the CEO of Superhuman about “Expert Review,” and it did not disappoint.
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@davelee.me
Dave Lee
on bluesky
Nipping to Trader Joes to spend my attribution [embedded post]
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@benjaminjriley
Benjamin Riley
on bluesky
Well it starts off as a relatively friendly interview but oh man does @reckless.bsky.social start slicing and dicing the “Superhuman” nee Grammerly CEO about the company's “impersonation” feature that everyone discovered and quickly loathed. Delicious read. — www.theverge.com/…
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@tyleraking.com
Tyler King
on bluesky
It's a fascinating interview with a person basically trying to pull the “we're compensating you with exposure” line and I just wanna point out that because LLMs are bullshit machines Grammarly's “expert” feature was citing completely made-up works. [embedded post]
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@weredawgz.blacksky.app
Danny Lore
on bluesky
So this is the grammarly legal argument huh? — www.theverge.com/podcast/8987... [image]
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@reckless
Nilay Patel
on bluesky
Here's my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly's “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987... [image]
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@kashhill
@kashhill
on bluesky
Does Grammarly have lawyers or did they just ask an AI agent if this was legal to do? Even a sycophantic AI agent would have to mention ‘Right of publicity’ laws... [embedded post]
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@lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
on bluesky
attn to my fellow messy bitches: here's the head of Superhuman getting cross-examined by our fearless leader about the “expert review” feature, which gave weird writing advice with real people's names attached - transcript & video lol www.theverge.com/podcast/8987... [image]
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@danhon.com
Dan Hon
on bluesky
Ohhhh the CEO of Superhuman, née Grammarly, of the “here's bell hooks, Julia Angwin, Nilay Patel etc giving you feedback” feature was running YouTube when they came out with ContentID, which goes a lot to explaining how this happened and how it's going to go: — www.theverge.com…
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r/BetterOffline
r
on reddit
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
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@katelynburns.com
Katelyn Burns
on bluesky
This interview is wild. The CEO being interviewed cannot conceive of a world where their right to profit does not come first. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
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@kendraserra
Kendra Albert
on bluesky
We have been blessed with @reckless.bsky.social doing an Isaac Chotiner. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
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@amyhoy
Amy Hoy
on bluesky
finally reading the transcript of the @reckless.bsky.social interview with the grammarly ceo and it's taking foreverrrr bc the ceo speaks like an llm overflowing its context window — i would love a @reckless.bsky.social solo take bc his questions were vastly more informative th…