“I have revised my personal statement over and over again, and it keeps getting flagged by my Grammarly plug-in as 43% AI-generated. I absolutely have NOT used gen AI on this statement and have spent countless hours writing and rewriting.”
“While writing my manuscript, I have been using Grammarly. I am not a native English speaker. I use it to improve spelling, grammar, and structure. I plan to submit it to a Q1 journal.”
“I've just spent most of the morning trying to get the Grammarly sidebar (?) to check my document. I gave up and had to use the built-in MS spelling and grammar checker.”
“for grammar, the best free resource i can think of is grammarly. this is very famous and commonly recommended by people on this sub as well. you can use word hippo (it's a thesaurus website) for finding synonyms of certain words u like.”
“If I ever decide to use Grammarly again, I'd like it to have some sort of image analyzer or identifier that can help me tell my story accurately, either through the whole picture or part of it--like something in the background I'm having trouble describing.”
“While spelling and punctuation suggestions are fine, accepting AI-generated rewrites or sentence suggestions is not permitted, as this counts as AI-generated content.”
“For years Grammarly was generally accepted as a grammar and spelling checker for long publishable texts. Does using Grammarly today constitute using AI?”
“What I think triggered the suspension was using Grammarly to fix some of my sentences. I’ve never had issues using it on previous projects, but this time, the extension prompted me to log back in while I was actively typing inside one of the text boxes.”
“I hadn't realized how much Grammarly is nudging students to replace more and more of their own thinking and writing with AI. I'd advise any student who wants to learn to think and write for themselves to not use this.”
“If you are using the blue underline suggestions in grammarly this will probably contribute to your AI assisted rating. It seems to follow a formula and the more you rearrange to fit an AI suggestion, the more it's assisted by AI/detected.”
“Grammarly's been doing this to me for months — every doc I open has some AI rewrite suggestion sitting in the sidebar even though I turned that off in settings back in spring, and it quietly turned itself back on after the last update.”
“I was curious and tried the free trial of Grammarly premium and to be honest it is so bad. Hilariously so. All its suggestions are the most "Hello Fellow Human" stuff I have ever heard.”
“I use grammarly to help check for punctuation and spelling, but that's it. Out of curiosity, I started putting my chapters through Grammarly's AI checker.”
“This cursor jumping backwards problem hasn't happened to very many people, but for example it is known that Grammarly can cause it, which is why I asked about that - I will have a look through some Apple support forums to see if anyone else has had the same problem.”
“The only way is still to do it yourself, but with the help of Grammarly. When you are stuck on ideas, ask Claude to be a thinking partner. Then the sentences are still yours”
“Are you using Grammarly? That sometimes sets AI detectors off. If you wanna test it, take some essay you wrote for a class years ago and chuck it in.”
“You used Grammarly for NLP (natural language processing) errors, I.e. to point out natural errors and draw attention to the mistake. There is a notable distinction in publishing/ editing regarding these 2 routes of AI usage.”
“Yeah so grammarly uses AI to do all of that. So basically you used AI to write the novel and are now baffled people are accusing you of using AI to write your novel. Lmao.”
“When using grammarly or other software, are you looking for synonym options for different words OR are you having the program rewrite the sentence or phrase for you?”
“The divide between the Twitter-AI-pilled-personal-agent maxxing people excited (and terrified) about AI solving longstanding problems at the frontier of disciplines and those who still use ChatGPT (and Claude) as a better version of Search + Grammarly is getting really wild”
“I dunno if this is relevant, but I work as a freelance editor, and I've had clients "edit their book with grammarly" and when I get it I can tell -- because it reads like an AI wrote it. This is especially apparent if I've worked with the author before and I know their style”
“Both Microsoft Word and Grammarly have AI integrated into the software / websites. The second AI touches anything, it triggers a notification for AI-generation.”
“Idk about grammarly, but I was using a similar program and the rearranged sentences never made any sense. Not even that it was a bad choice, most of the time it wasn’t even a complete sentence anymore!”
“Texting oomf while using Grammarly at the same time. My texts got mixed up, and now I’m so embarrassed lol. I thought I’d need Twitter to compensate for the embarrassment”
“That is what is being flagged, there are almost always several grammatically correct ways to write something; Grammarly, like all AI, falls into detectable patterns when making those choices.”
“If someone to use Grammarly on the paid version where it smooths out the words (or however they call it) then it'll start to twig people with a keen eye for AI because, well, it's using AI models to rewrite.”