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Incident 14071 Report
Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

2026-03-11

Grammarly's Expert Review feature allegedly used a large language model to generate editing suggestions presented under the names of journalists, authors, and academics without their consent. A federal class action filed by Julia Angwin claimed the feature misappropriated identities for commercial gain and attributed advice the named individuals never gave.

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Grammarly

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Superhuman

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Julia Angwin

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Journalists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Academics

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Authors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Writers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Grammarly Expert Review

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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Large language model

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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AI writing assistant

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1407
    1 Report

    Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

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