Grammarly Uses Real Journalists’ Faces for AI, Forgets Permission RSVP
KEY POINTS
- •Journalist Julia Angwin filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman.
- •The complaint alleges Grammarly used journalists’ identities in its AI ‘Expert Review’ feature without permission or consent.
- •Angwin discovered her likeness was used after Platformer reporter Casey Newton exposed the AI’s identity borrowing.
For months, Grammarly’s AI ‘Expert Review’ has reportedly borrowed the likenesses of actual journalists—like Julia Angwin and Casey Newton—without so much as a polite ‘May I?’ This Hollywood-level identity heist led to Wednesday’s class-action lawsuit accusing Grammarly’s parent company Superhuman of playing the digital Phantom of the Opera, lip-syncing with stolen faces to sell AI suggestions. No one signed a deal; Angwin discovered the sneaky usage via Platformer’s Casey Newton, himself a co-star in the face-lifting saga. All this, despite Grammarly being the supposed grammar guardian, now grinding gears in court for bad AI etiquette that broke laws about using identities commercially without consent. For a company that proofreads other people’s writing, apparently ‘consent’ was a contextual callback they missed.
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(1 of 3)Grammarly’s new feature: the AI steals your face to fix your grammar, but forgot to ask first. Welcome to tech ethics 101, where everything is copyrighted except common courtesy.
Grammarly’s AI decided real faces make better experts. Consent? Wrong button, must’ve been a typo.
If stealing your face is Grammarly’s idea of expert review, I want my lawyer’s mugshot on their next update.
Source: Theverge | Published: 3/11/2026 | Author: Stevie Bonifield
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