Grammarly ripped off famous writers using their names for AI-generated Expert Reviews. They're now allowing opt-outs

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7. Did you read the earlier thread and the articles I linked to there? They don't pretend they've somehow

been able to get real experts like Stephen King to be on call to offer expert advice to Grammarly users.

This is their page about "Expert Review":

https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/expert-review

Expert Review feels like having trusted expert reviewers by your side. This AI agent provides high-quality, domain-specific feedback based on publicly available expert content, helping you meet the expectations of your field with confidence.

They apparently trained their AI on all the writing by these experts that they could steal.

And it is theft, for most of that training data (not theft from some of the deceased authors they're claiming as Grammarly experts, though it's theft from the authors who didn't die long ago, because copyright lasts decades beyond an author's death).

Grammarly refers to what's "publicly available" - clearly hoping people will confuse that with "public domain." Other AI companies like to do the same thing. It's trickery. Being publicly available does not negate copyright.

And it's a safe bet at least some Grammarly users will think they are getting direct advice from the authors named. And others will assume those famous authors are working with Grammarly to produce advice for writers that the AI will draw from to help users. Or at the very least those users will assume Grammarly has the writers' permission to do this.