Grammarly is using our identities without permission

March 6, 2026 Stevie Bonifield

A screenshot of a draft Verge post in Google Docs with an AI-generated Grammarly comment using Nilay Patel’s name

Grammarly's "expert review" feature offers to give users writing advice "inspired by" subject matter experts, including recently deceased professors, as Wired reported on Wednesday. When I tried the feature out myself, I found some experts that came as a surprise for a different reason - one of them was my boss.

The AI-generated feedback included comments that appeared to be from The Verge's editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, as well as editor-at-large David Pierce and senior editors Sean Hollister and Tom Warren, none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them in the "expert reviews."

The feature, which launched in August, claims to h …

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