{"id":341606,"date":"2026-03-12T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:33:08","slug":"one-of-grammarlys-experts-is-suing-the-company-over-its-identity-stealing-ai-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341606\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Grammarly\u2019s \u2018experts\u2019 is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its \u201cExpert Review\u201d AI suggestions<\/a> without getting their permission, and now it\u2019s facing a lawsuit from one of the journalists included, as previously reported by Wired<\/a>. The class-action complaint<\/a> filed by journalist Julia Angwin on Wednesday alleges that Superhuman violated the \u201cexperts\u2019\u201d privacy and publicity rights by breaking laws against using someone\u2019s identity for commercial purposes without their consent.<\/p>\n

Angwin says she found out her identity was used by way of Casey Newton<\/a>, who is also one of the experts that The Verge uncovered being used by Grammarly when we tested the feature this week. Several current Verge staff members popped up attached to Grammarly\u2019s AI-generated suggestions, too, including editor-in-chief Nilay Patel.<\/p>\n

CEO Shishir Mehrotra says<\/a> that \u201cthe agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for experts to build deeper relationships with their fans. We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this. I want to apologize and acknowledge that we\u2019ll rethink our approach going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its \u201cExpert Review\u201d AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,43,216,80],"class_list":["post-341606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}