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L.J., un-author-ized writer

@noxypaws their terms grammarly.com/terms#user-conte at least seem to leave it open.

"You grant us a license to your User Content for the limited purposes of: ...

"Developing new products or features (for example, creating our tone detector)"

Together with the fact that they bill themselves as an AI writing assistant service, it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together and no one should be surprised if this was going on awhile.

@susankayequinn

30 Jul 2023 at 0:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on writeout.ink
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Noxy 🐾

@ljwrites @susankayequinn I wouldn't put it past them, or anybody, at the moment. but it should be much bigger news if there was any sort of revelation recently.

30 Jul 2023 at 2:03 | Open on packmates.org
L.J., un-author-ized writer

@noxypaws "In some cases, we may store some text to help us improve the product, though we do not store all text transmitted through Grammarly.”

Collins noted that the company removes user account data and personally identifiable information from *text it uses to train its natural-language processing systems.* (asterisks mine for emphasis)

Source: protocol.com/newsletters/proto

Revelatory enough for you? Like I said, this isn't new--the linked article is from February 2022. If you think this would have caused a stir, you underestimate how normalized this kind of thing has become.

@susankayequinn

@noxypaws "In some cases, we may store some text to help us improve the product, though we do not store all text transmitted through Grammarly.”

Collins noted that the company removes user account data and personally identifiable information from *text it uses to train its natural-language processing systems.* (asterisks mine for emphasis)

30 Jul 2023 at 2:26 | Open on writeout.ink
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