"Grammarly is now offering 'expert review' of your work by living and dead academics. Without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputation."
"Grammarly describes 'Expert Review' as an AI agent that can help you 'meet the expectations of your discipline and your project by drawing on insights from subject-matter experts and trusted publications,' which comes packed with Grammarly's suite of new AI tools it released last summer."
"I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed."
Grammarly introduced an Expert Review feature that allows users to select from various academics to review their manuscripts using AI agents trained on those experts' published work. The tool was criticized after users discovered it includes deceased scholars, including historian David Abulafia who died in January. Academics across multiple institutions expressed outrage, arguing the feature impersonates real people without explicit consent and exploits their names and reputations. The AI agent generates suggestions and revised versions of writing based on the selected expert's work. Critics called the practice unethical and invasive, with some describing it as among the most problematic developments in academic technology.
#ai-ethics #academic-integrity #unauthorized-use-of-likeness #grammarly-controversy #deceased-scholars
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