Grammarly’s “Expert Review” is a Privacy Shitshow and Everyone’s Surprised Apparently
Oh for fuck’s sake. Grammarly—that bloody annoying browser extension that underlines your shitty writing in red because you can’t remember the difference between “their” and “there”—is getting sued. And not just sued, but class-action sued, because it turns out their “AI Expert Review” feature wasn’t just an algorithm having a wank over your doctoral thesis; it was actual human beings reading your deepest, darkest secrets.
You know that “confidential” medical report you ran through Grammarly? Or that angry resignation letter where you called your boss a “syphilitic donkey”? Yeah, some underpaid contractor in a cube farm probably had a good laugh at that while eating their sad sandwich. The lawsuit claims Grammarly didn’t properly tell users that “Expert Review” meant “we’ll ship your docs off to random humans to paw through.”
Apparently, these fuckwits thought “AI-powered” meant “100% silicon-based judgement” when it actually meant “AI plus whatever cheap labor we can scrounge up.” The privacy policy was vaguer than a politician’s promise—buried in legalese that nobody reads because they’re too busy trying to spell “accommodate” correctly.
Grammarly’s response? Basically “nuh-uh, we didn’t do anything wrong.” Classic. They’ll probably settle for some bullshit amount while continuing to harvest everyone’s data like digital vampires. And the users? They’ll keep using it because spelling is hard and thinking is harder.
Moral of the story: If you don’t want strangers reading your shit, don’t upload it to the cloud, you absolute weapons.
Reminds me of the time I caught a user feeding their “private” love letters through the office scanner-to-email. I didn’t read them, of course. I just automated a reply-all to the entire company directory with the subject line “RE: My Burning Loins.” Some lessons need to be learned the hard way.
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