PrivacyHigh
Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent
- Occurred
- Mar 11, 2026
- Published
- Mar 11, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Grammarly
- Superhuman
Deployers
- Grammarly
- Superhuman
Harmed parties
- Julia Angwin
- Journalists
- Academics
- Authors
- Writers
- Grammarly users
- Epistemic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Class action lawsuit filed over unauthorized use of identities for commercial gain without consent.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8