"In August, the company launched a feature called Expert Review that would offer feedback on your writing, offering AI-generated feedback that would appear to come from a famous writer or academic of note. These recreations were based on "publicly available information from third-party LLMs," which sounds a lot like web crawlers of dubious legality were involved."
"Living or dead, these writers' names appeared on Grammarly without their permission or knowledge. "References to experts in this product are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities," the company hedged in a disclaimer on the service."
"Today, Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra wrote in a LinkedIn post that the company will disable Expert Review while it reassesses the feature. "The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for experts to build deeper relationships with their fans.""
Superhuman's Grammarly launched Expert Review in August, an AI writing assistant feature that provided feedback attributed to famous writers and academics, both living and deceased, based on publicly available information from third-party language models. The feature generated personalized suggestions appearing to come from notable figures without their knowledge or consent. After widespread complaints from living writers objecting to unauthorized use of their names and reputations, Superhuman initially offered an opt-out mechanism. The company subsequently announced it would disable Expert Review entirely while reassessing the feature's approach, acknowledging concerns about the ethical implications of attributing AI-generated content to real individuals.
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