“I will say if you use the grammarly to rephrase anything it will trigger them even though you aren't actually using AI in this case. And it's honestly so annoying you can only really use grammarly to fix individual words or spelling mistakes.”
“rememeber early grammarly when like it, in hindsight, was obvious they were using an early AI prototype and it sucked ass and if you used it you were an idiot”
“I always laugh whenever I go to edit a @readwise quote to leave a note, and Grammarly absolutely obliterates the author's original language and sentence structure.”
“I had grammarly before the LLMs being the thing they are now. Professors are just resisting something they cannot for no reason giving a generation headache.”
“@eversnore Grammarly now has an interesting feature that flags phrases written like AI. It's a lot of vague similes, as you mentioned, but it's unfortunate that it highlights specific adjectives you may just be inclined to use. I'm a fan of the word "palpable," and apparently AI is as well!”
“For those who are looking for an extra scaffold for a disability ask under your reasonable accommodation policy for access - that might also be a copilot linked feature within word rather than a standalone program like grammarly or having to c&p between two readily accessed programs.”
“I have been using the pro version since 2018 for my dyslexia. They have said to use Copilot but I'm not a I either have to cut and paste or auto draft changes the intent . Thanks”
“I write quite poorly, especially when sending emails. I always have to use Grammarly to correct my mistakes. So I decided to create my own, local and very user-friendly interface, simple to use, working offline as a PWA application.”
“Not sure about Grammarly anymore, but for PWA you can not use AI features at all (there are also levels of it, from rephrase options, Sparks and AI feedbacks), and also PWA was created by PWA and the feedback they got from willing users.”
“Free grammarly does not use generative ai. Tone detection and spag checks might use machine learning but that's not gen ai (the one creatives hate). For the most part, rewrites and rephrasing is likely to use gen ai and LLMs but you don't have to turn those on or use those tools.”
“You're going to get different opinions on this wisdom because obviously it boils down to what people consider AI assistance and whether they consider tools like grammarly or prowritingaid adding in AI features, that the user base didn't ask for, if that counts as well.”
“but I wouldn't say using grammarly to check grammar counts as AI assisted writing, of course I'd recommend learning grammar rules as well as you can, if only to check the output, but that wasn't your question. I would consider using the rephrase feature to be AI assistance, though.”
“From what I can find, grammarly's small grammar suggestions haven't incorporated AI. (They were available before LLMs launched) But sentence rewrites and tone suggestions are more likely to be AI.”
“I’m 17 and I’m genuinely terrible at grammar and punctuation I’ve used Grammarly and spell check basically my entire life so I guess I never actually learned how to write properly on my own. I’ll write something and I can just tell it’s wrong, like it just sounds wrong but I don’t even know what’s wrong with it”
“I am glad they actually mention grammarly. I use that all the time for work. Now I just uninstall it. I wish I can setup chrome not to use grammarly.”
“As an impoverished, aged pensioner, Grammarly is worth my rare and extra money. It offers many rare, exotic writing styles to correct my gruff, rude abruptness (Severe TBI, from a car accident, 1984).”
“Please don't recommend another model such as Opus or another tool such as ChatGPT or another third party tool such as Grammarly, I just wanna know which effort level to use with Claude Sonnet”
“Been using Grammarly in Google Docs lately, and it's been buggy. Fixing sentences at top of the page can result in fixes being inserted into header section. And sometimes it warps entire sentences, so I have to manually fix the fix.”
“ive used grammarly too and it can make writing feel more formal than what i normally sound like in papers. maybe try mixing in some of your original draft phrasing so it feels more like you.”
“I wrote the entire paper myself, but I did use Grammarly to catch grammar mistakes and improve a few awkward sentences. I also spent several hours rearranging paragraphs, changing transitions, and making the wording more academic because I thought that was what the assignment wanted.”
“tell me why I shouldnt spend hours paraphrasing a 12+ page paper, then immediately upload it to (Im guessing the free vers) grammarly for a quick lil humanization? lol”
“I have turned off genAI in all of my tools though I don't use Grammarly anymore (I have ProWritingAid off at the moment). I wish I could turn off Gemini in GoogleDocs, but that's another issue for another day.”
“Is grammarlys Ai Detector and Humanizer reliable? I’m using it for a university and textual analysis essay and was wondering how reliable it is against turn it in. I was planning on humanizing my text and then paraphrasing the entire thing on my own.”
“I stopped using Grammarly because it become increasingly crazy and wrong when it could be bothered to do anything but serve me adds for more expensive versions that are presumably even crazier and wronger.”
“Grammarly does not have hair or a neck, so there are going to be things that might not be the most efficient wording or grammar, but hit hard to a human reader.”
“It’s great for when I word something weird and it gives me a suggestion that makes the sentence sound a lot smoother. But more than half I would say of the suggestions are just unnecessary.”