{"id":9171,"date":"2026-03-04T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/grammarly-ai-reviews\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:01:00","slug":"grammarly-ai-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/grammarly-ai-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grammarly is being accused of \u201cnecromancy\u201d after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of real professors \u2014 some of whom have already left this mortal coil.<\/p>\n

The issue was first flagged by Verena Krebs, a medieval historian and Ruhr-University Bochum professor. On Sunday, Krebs shared a screenshot<\/a> showing the \u201cExpert Review\u201d tool allowing users to pick historian David Abulafia as one of the available \u201cexperts\u201d to check their paper. If Abulafia objected to his inclusion here, we\u2019ll probably never know, since he died in January.<\/p>\n

The news sparked a flurry of fiery responses across academic circles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGrammarly is now offering \u2018expert review\u2019 of your work by living and dead academics,\u201d Vanessa Heggie, an associate professor in the history of science and medicine at the University of Birmingham, wrote in a LinkedIn post<\/a>. \u201cWithout anyone\u2019s explicit permission it\u2019s creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed,\u201d Claire E. Aubin, a historian and host of the \u201cThis Guy Sucked\u201d podcast, wrote in a now viral post on Bluesky<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grammarly describes \u201cExpert Review\u201d as an AI agent that can help you \u201cmeet the expectations of your discipline and your project by drawing on insights from subject-matter experts and trusted publications,\u201d which comes packed with Grammarly\u2019s suite of new AI tools it released last summer. To use it, you open your document in Grammarly\u2019s AI platform, select the Expert Review agent, and let it make suggestions based on your expert of choice. The tool will even generate revised versions of your writing based on the suggestions being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cRevise the draft yourself or let Expert Review rework things for you,\u201d Grammarly\u2019s website claims.<\/p>\n

The tool already feels invasive for essentially impersonating real academics by providing AI-generated feedback under their name, to say nothing of the flouting of copyright protections that every LLM in existence relied on to be built. That it\u2019s also masquerading as dead professors, in the eyes of many scholars, adds grievous insult to injury.<\/p>\n

This is \u201cliterally digital necromancy,\u201d wrote Kathleen Alves, an associate professor of English at CUNY, in a Bluesky post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNecromancerLLM,\u201d echoed<\/a> Hisham Zerriffi, an associate professor in forest resources management at the University of British Columbia. \u201cSeriously, dead or alive, this is just wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue. It also provides an \u201cAI grader agent<\/a>\u201d that provides students with personalized feedback on their homework by looking up \u201cpublicly available instructor information\u201d on their teachers and professors.<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The post Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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