By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026But Grammarly has just rolled out an AI tool that is so obviously contemptuous of writing that they might as well have called it "Go fuck yourself, by Grammarly." 42/ 1272
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026The new product is called "Expert Review," and it promises to give you writing advice "inspired" by writers whose writing they have ingested. I am one of these virtual "writing teachers" you can pay Grammarly for: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 43/theverge.comGrammarly is using our identities without permissionGrammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity. 2221
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026This is not how writing advice works. When I teach the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' workshop, my job isn't to train the students to produce work that is strongly statistically correlated with the sentence structure and word choices in my own writing. 44/ 1496
Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Reminds me of this fantastic article: "I Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems" www.huffpost.com/entry/standa...huffpost.comI Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own PoemsI Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems 1133
