Overview
- Superhuman/Grammarly disabled the Expert Review tool this week after it attributed AI-generated edits to real writers and academics without permission, including deceased figures.
- Journalist Julia Angwin filed a class-action complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking damages and an injunction over alleged misappropriation of names and identities.
- CEO Shishir Mehrotra apologized for misrepresenting experts’ voices and said the feature will be redesigned to give experts control, while stating the legal claims are without merit.
- Writers and outlets criticized the company’s initial opt-out-by-email offer as inadequate and unworkable for people who were never informed or are no longer alive.
- Affected authors reported inaccurate, off-voice feedback attributed to them; the feature launched in August as part of Grammarly’s AI agent suite for paying users.