Passing off

Here’s the entirety of a post from Publishers Lunch of 12 March: Author and New York Times contributing Opinion editor Julia Angwin has filed a class action lawsuit against Superhuman, the parent company of Grammarly, which in August released an AI feature that edited users’ work in the style of notable writers and editors. ‘Expert Review’ name-checked writers including Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kara Swisher, and was developed without the creators’ knowledge or consent. (To add insult to injury, Angwin told Wired that the editing suggestions weren’t even good. “I was surprised at how bad it was,” she said.) “The agent draws on publicly available information from third-party LLMs to surface writing suggestions inspired by the published work of influential voices,” ceo Shishir Mehrotra explained on LinkedIn. “As context, the agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for…