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Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

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FinnLobsien · 1790161019 · focus · HN ↗
I think Grammarly is quite obviously in trouble since LLMs went so mainstream. And while I think AI-powered replacements are a great threat, I reckon an even bigger one is the decline of writing itself.
If Gmail suggests the whole email (and whatever model it's using has baked in whatever suggestions Grammarly would've had), nobody needs feedback on an email they didn't even write?
1. Thom2503 · 1790169613 · focus · HN ↗
  Grammarly does use AI <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-superhuman/" rel="nofollow">https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-... since 2025.
  1. ProllyInfamous · 1790220256 · focus · HN ↗
    I began noticing (right before their acceptance of AI, c2024) that grammarly (and translation sites) were offering (what seemed like at the time) "lifetime subscriptions to soon-to-be obsolete tech" – the writing was already so-obviously written upon walls that ChatGPT was an industry re-writer.

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