Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning
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The day I typed my first question into ChatGPT I cancelled my gmrly subscription. If they'd a public stock I'll be shorting it so hard.
Of course, GPT-4 can be molded into an editing-centric companion, but I bet Grammarly is already working on that, and they might end up paying OpenAI for the technology.
Brand recognition means that it's a lot easier for Grammarly to build that product than for a random third party to break through.
But all the editors where Grammarly is integrated are owned by Google/Microsoft/etc., who can natively implement a writing-tailored AI as a feature.
Unless they get a very good deal using the GPT-4 API might end up too expensive for their use case.
Grammarly has the UX down. For authors, gpt doesn't compare.
When I began to consistently compose 1000+ word passages, all while never triggering a red squiggle, I realized I'd gotten everything I needed from the tool and I uninstalled the addins. (I was a fully paid single user, btw.)
Communication isn’t just information. It’s also how relationships are built. I get an email that was run through a dozen rounds of spell check and AI wizardry and I won’t even know who you really are.
Also, the real tinfoil hat is our AI overlords changing our language into AI-newspeak.
Mind you, non-native speakers tend to involuntarily stretch and bend the language this way and that. It’s when somebody else in society uses that involuntary bending and stretching to mark and segregate foreigners that tools like Grammarly come handy. And, that’s my grudge with Grammarly: to me, most of its suggestions read as “you are not writing pureblood, your written mongrel will earn you the scorn of your betters.”
And they were right. All of those things have led to a huge decline in language diversity.
- Demo: https://refiner.roman.pt/. - Source: https://github.com/imankulov/refiner.
For me it works better than Grammarly.
This could easily be related as that DC seems to have housed a lot of cloud based service infrastructure.
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It’s interesting because I have so much trouble getting Grammarly to work (I thought that announcement would justify the problem), but it’s far more prosaic than that:
- the little indicator hides the content that I’m writing and can’t be moved;
- if I dismiss a problem, it will ignore it for a second until I approve another one and immediately flag the first problem again;
- occasionally, it won’t apply the recommended change;
- some changes make the entire browser think I’m trying to reload or close the page… not sure, but the browser is not happy about that.
- It occasionally overrides the editor in fairly catastrophic ways: puts the edited word and the rest of what I’ve written afterward somewhere random in the editing window, duplicating half of my response and overwriting entire paragraphs. It’s pretty destructive and frustrating, breaking Ctrl+Z and the entire editor.
I’m impressed at how smart it is: detects unnecessary words, catches trailing 's's, and knows when to apply Oxford commas… but I’d love not to have to reload HN because editing five paragraphs in a '90s interface and its 40kb of overhead is enough to cause kernel panic.
(this post was not checked with languagetool)