Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations.
In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
« The real question is whether AI’s productivity gains, if it delivers, are shared with workers. And the truth is employers won’t share those gains unless they’re forced to. »
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
"A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text." I'm sure there are plenty of examples of genre glitch in internal organizational documents as well!
"Every apparent gain in speed is a shift of burden downstream. Someone still has to reread, compare, test, contextualize, rewrite. And if no one takes on that work, the cost does not disappear. It reappears later in the form of errors, urgent fixes, loss of trust, and eventually litigation."
Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains
www.theguardian.com
« Once an editor starts relying on an AI‑generated score, or a reviewer quietly pastes an auto‑drafted report with minimal edits, it becomes difficult to say where human responsibility ends, and machine suggestion begins. That ambiguity leads directly to a political problem: accountability. »
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature: prf-law.com/current-case...
Every interface is an argument about how you should feel. A red dot with an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation.
www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...
AI impersonation: workers are tasked with simulating machinic neutrality while processing human emotion.
Julia Angwin
Lawsuit alleges that Grammarly violated state privacy laws that protect people from having their names and identities used for commercial purposes without their prior consent For media please cont...
prf-law.com
Grammarly’s « expert review » feature: a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Augmentation washing - Instead of augmenting human capabilities, it disguises a form of automation that relies on intensified human labor to compensate machine limitations: "the men who remain are there more to help than to be helped.”(Licklider, 1960). www.techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?
"If No One Pays for Proof, Everyone Will Pay for the Loss" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367 (back on "AI still doesn’t work very well in business, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming" www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/a...)
This post was initially written in French, Si personne ne paie pour la preuve, tout le monde paiera pour le sinistre Let’s start with a truism. In ordinary life, just as in economic life, we have to m...
Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this!
jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text.…
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
Arthur Charpentier
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨
In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards.
➡️ data-workers.org/france
