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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Loffhagen

Grammarly removes AI Expert Review feature mimicking writers after backlash

Carl Sagan gesturing toward planetary models on the set of Cosmos
Carl Sagan, one of the authors featured in Grammarly’s Expert Review tool. Photograph: Science History Images/Alamy

Grammarly has disabled a controversial AI feature that imitated the style of prominent writers and academics, and is facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit from those whose identities were used without consent.

The feature, called Expert Review, used generative AI to produce feedback supposedly inspired by writers including the novelist Stephen King, the astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the late scientist Carl Sagan.

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