Grammarly Expands Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing

Grammarly announced today that it's (unsurprisingly) diving into the generative AI fray. From a report: GrammarlyGo is an upcoming set of auto-composition features to help the AI proofreading software keep up with the many companies adding the ChatGPT API (or different generative AI backends) to their products. GrammarlyGo can use context like voice, style, purpose and where you're writing to determine its approach. So, for example, it can spit out email replies, shorten passages, rewrite them for tone and clarity, brainstorm or choose from one-click prompts -- all while adhering to your company's voice or other provided context. In addition, since Grammarly's desktop service can pop up in any text field on your computer, its generative writing could be slightly more convenient than competitors (like Notion or Gmail's Smart Compose) that require you to visit an app or website. The company says GrammarlyGo will be enabled by default for individuals, and you can toggle it in settings. Grammarly justifies the feature's existence by saying most people's writing can be better and faster.

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[gweihir]

The more this crappy thing is used, the earlier it becomes obvious how it is not nearly all it is cracked up to be.

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[real_nickname]

This is a modern version of mechanical turk. It does trick a lot of people.

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[fermion]

There is a scene in back to school where the students are increasingly just leaving recorders on their desk, so one day the professor just leaves a recording of the lecture.,

There are many real world cases where just having the best writing or presentation is critical. Getting help is critical, and computer help is cheap. And yes sometimes is just a cheap obvious trick that does not really produce superior results, like the early day of pagemaker.

The idea that a student is looking for the right answer

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[gweihir]

The idea that a student is looking for the right answer to most easily get the best grade it also nothing new. Back in the day every if you read a book, the student looking for an easy A was still going simply rewrite the cliff notes. I did not understand this, so wrote my own papers and got a B.

Ah, yes, I remember that. Utterly pathetic teacher fail. I never did it because when I wrote my own stuff, I got at least meaningful feedback and learned something and who cares about that B. The "A" students may or may not have had trouble though later. I hear some academic subjects like pedagogics are taught on that level
of teaching "quality" as well. Friend of mine did that as a minor and he got "A"s for stuff that would have just an assured failure in the CS course where doing your own writing and think

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[gweihir]

It does. It does so because most people are not very smart. But that is really not the level you want something like this to operate on.

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[flyingfsck]

Now, people will have to add grammar and spelling errors to make text look authentic.

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[gweihir]

I expect this artificial moron can be tricked into doing that for you as well.

Goodbye people striving for writing skills...

[t0qer]

So aging myself a bit, but I started high school about 1987. Growing up in the 80's teachers use to really get on us to not use calculators, "IT WILL RUIN YOUR MATH! SHOW YOUR WORK!" I was terrible at math, but great at writing (at least according to my teachers I'm a decent writer) I continued honing my skill through college. It never really gave me any advantage other than an internal sinister laugh at work from my inner grammar Nazi whenever I saw someone write a bad email or document. I never reall

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[real_nickname]

Authors have their unique style and create new one. I don't think LLM can do that. A calculator can't do math either.

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[chas.williams]

Grammarly is helpful in certain ways. It catches stupid errors that I make when I am typing at speed and basically acts as a proofreader. Additionally, it helps me eliminate useless helper words and written verbal crutches. Grammarly tends to prefer assertive language and suggests removing wishy-washy phrases. If you are going to write it and claim authorship, there's no reason to weasel word your opinion. Everyone knows it is your opinion. Well, they should know it's an opinion. After all, I are an enginee

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[t0qer]

Agree to disagree. I think understanding the syntax of human language is useful for understanding the syntax of computer language.

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[chas.williams]

Syntax and grammar in computer languages follow very strict patterns. English is far more flexible. Some constructs in English grammar, such as the double negative, have a completely different meaning in most programming languages.

copying south park now?

[Joe_Dragon]

copying south park now?

Are they going to quit obnoxious advertising too?

[thesjaakspoiler]

The only thing I know about Grammarly are all those obnoxious advertisements for something I don't need.
I'm a human, deal with my imprefections.

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[bn-7bc]

Welj i guess the ads are rhere because you did not go for the premium/pro version. But isn't that the way it almost always goes., Peasonally I havn't used grammarly , mainly because ( due to other factors) most of the "writing" I do is skashdot comments and the lime, and it's not worth my time to actually use a celarate tool

You still need to judge...

[VeryFluffyBunny]

...whether the generated output is appropriate/acceptable/suitable. In the same way that if you do some arithmetic on a calculator & the result doesn't look right. We all still need basic writing & arithmetic knowledge & skills. It ain't going away.

What I'm using ChatGPT for at the moment is to generate model texts in specific genres on specific topics with specific functions. They're a much better teaching resource than giving students a bunch of abstract "rules" (that aren't really rules) t

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[flyingfsck]

ChatGPT is something up with which we will have to put.

DivorceGO is numero uno priority

[ElitistWhiner]

For the 40% of American marriages guaranteed to end. DivorceGO can manage afterlife communication to keep people from committing hara-kiri by attorney fees and child custody fauxpas.