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Grammarly launched an “Expert Review” feature that offers AI-generated writing feedback under the names of real people – journalists, scholars, public figures – without getting their permission first. The Verge discovered its own editors, including Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Tom Warren, listed as available reviewers. Writers at The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo were also included. Some of the named experts are dead, like historian David Abulafia, who passed away in January. The backlash was immediate and sharp. Identity misuse in AI products has become a recurring pattern – from voice cloning lawsuits against ElevenLabs to image likeness disputes with Midjourney – but packaging it as a premium writing tool and charging for it adds a commercial layer that tends to accelerate legal responses.
