Grammarly CEO Steps on Same Rake over and over in Embarrassing Interview About AI Slop

Grammarly CEO steps on same rake over and over in embarrassing interview about AI slop

Maybe Grammarly's CEO should have stolen other styles to defend the rip-off of big-name writers' voices, because his own explanations didn't make any sense, and completely failed to defend the indefensible.Image Credit: GrammarlyRecently, I wrote about how Superhuman, the company that owns Grammarly, killed off an unethical feature in its popular grammar checking tool. The feature, known as "expert review," not only taught people how to rip off …

Grammarly’s CEO defends putting AI editorial suggestions into the voices of real writers (while noting it didn’t work very well)

Sometimes you just get lucky with the editorial calendar. About a month ago, Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra agreed to be a guest on Decoder, the podcast from The Verge hosted by editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. Superhuman is the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is now just one of its AI-focused productivity tools, and Mehrotra and Patel would have already had plenty to talk about. But then journalists started noticing a little-known Gramm…

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Today, I’m talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that’s the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Shishir also used to be the chief product officer at YouTube, and he’s on the board of directors at Spotify. He’s a fascinating guy, and we…

SCIENCE & TECH: ‘The feature was not a good feature’ — Grammarly CEO admits Experts Review didn’t work, but you may not like what replaces it

It’s pretty obvious where Grammarly went wrong, isn’t it? Blame AI. Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, has been in hot water and facing a class action lawsuit over its use of real experts’ names (and their perceived way of writing, editing, and thinking) in its now-discontinued Expert Review feature. The feature relied on AI to guess at how an expert like Tom’s Guide’s Mark Spoonauer might guide you in your writing. The good news is that ev…

‘The feature was not a good feature’ — Grammarly CEO admits Experts Review didn’t work, but you may not like what replaces it

Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra admitted Grammarly can 'do much better' when asked about the Experts Review feature, which appeared to offer writing advice from living experts without their permission.