Overview
- The Verge found AI comments labeled with the names of its editors, who said they did not consent to be included.
- Reporter testing documented frequent crashes plus source links that were spam copies, archives, or unrelated to the cited person.
- In Google Docs, the AI suggestions appeared like normal user comments, raising the risk users could mistake them for real edits from the named figures.
- Academics criticized the use of living and deceased scholars as supposed reviewers without explicit permission, with some calling the practice morbid or obscene.
- Superhuman said experts surface because their work is widely cited and described the output as suggestions “inspired by” influential voices, with suggested names including Margaret Sullivan, Jack Shafer, Lawrence Lessig, Timnit Gebru, and Helen Nissenbaum.