Ellis

Multiple months ago, but only discovered fairly recently, people discovered this feature within Grammarly that effectively gives you advice based on various different writers that are well known in the writing world or like the tech writing world or things like that.

So if you were writing an article or you were writing, I don't know, anything you're writing, you could say like,

hey, what would Nilay Patel think about this writing that I'm doing?

Yes.

And it would also do line edits to like if you had it would like make suggestions based on your writing.

And yeah.

they they were like oh yeah we pulled specific like pieces of work from various different journalists and then we put it in this ai model and now it can make suggestions and it's like that's just not how this works at all like it's insane and uh this feature has been deployed for multiple months but people only found it recently so well no no it was deployed it took a while for people to go and it's gone now they took it away yeah it was found recently by like it blew up i think a few months i think last year

Grammarly had added this feature late last year.

Not a lot of people were using it.

No one really noticed it.

And then recently, it kind of popped up in the media because people started noticing it.

And all these people started writing about it because the people that were writing about it were the people it was impersonating, effectively.

Every article was like...

This is impersonating authors, including me.

It was kind of crazy.

So funny enough, Nila has this podcast called Decoder.

He had already scheduled to have the superhuman slash Grammarly CEO on like the following week.

And to that guy's credit, he actually did go on Decoder to talk to Nila about it.

And the interview was very tense from the get go from the get go from the start.

Yeah.