Grammarly’s artificial intelligence tool Expert Review is under fire after writing experts claim they did not give the company permission to use their names or provide expert feedback on their behalf.
In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Julia Angwin — a contributing opinion editor at The New York Times — alleges that the Expert Review tool used her name and others’ without prior consent.
“Grammarly structured the Expert Review tool so that its customers would believe that the “experts” like Ms. Angwin were providing their perspective, insight, feedback, and comments on the users’ writing or, at a minimum, that the experts were associated with feedback and comments being provided,” the lawsuit stated.
The lawsuit also states that Angwin and other journalists, authors and editors have “suffered economic injury,” due to the fact that they were not compensated …
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