The only way to avoid Grammarly using your data for AI is to pay for 500 accounts

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨soyagi@yiffit.net⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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Text in the screenshot from Grammarly says:

We develop data sets to train our algorithms so that we can improve the services we provide to customers like you. We have devoted significant time and resources to developing methods to ensure that these data sets are anonymized and de-identified.

To develop these data sets, we sample snippets of text at random, disassociate them from a user’s account, and then use a variety of different methods to strip the text of identifying information (such as identifiers, contact details, addresses, etc.). Only then do we use the snippets to train our algorithms-and the original text is deleted. In other words, we don’t store any text in a manner that can be associated with your account or used to identify you or anyone else.

We currently offer a feature that permits customers to opt out of this use for Grammarly Business teams of 500 users or more. Please let me know if you might be interested in a license of this size, and I’II forward your request to the corresponding team.

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drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There is a second way, legend has it. The ancient ones tell a tale of the one that does not use the service, and does not train someone else’s shitty models for free.

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- dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The third way is like the second way: we learn to write good without crutches.
  
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  - drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    As a native American English speaker, shit’s mad hard yo.
    
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Please read turn to page 32 of your copy of Strunk & White and recite the prayer against avoiding excess verbiage.
  
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Nioxic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well isnt grammerly not just a keylogger with some helpful features to put your mind at ease?

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mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why is it necessary to post this to so many different cimmunities?

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- keegomatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I see this complaint a lot but honestly I don’t quite understand what the big deal is. Not everyone is subscribed to the same communities. Personally, I’d love a feature on kbin/lemmy that rolled up duplicate posts on the client, but it’s really not that annoying for me to see a couple dupes in my feed if they’re posted in relevant communities /shrug
  
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  - stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Case in point, this post is the only one I’ve seen of this, so I must not be following any of the other communities/magazines the OP posted to.
    
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- Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe it’s relevant to those community i guess, so they posted it there. I didn’t see such complaint in reddit where multiple sub posted the same stuff over a few days(eg: games, gaming, pcgaming, pcmr, so on and so forth, can share the same exact news and it will appear in your feed multiple times), so not sure why it suddenly a problem in Lemmy.
  
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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Let’s ignore the ethical implications of this for a moment.

Grammarly is training it’s AI off of the poorly written grammar of it’s users that it has to already adjust?

It seems like this would be a flawed set of training data. It’s training on what it already either produced or on something written by someone who may not have used proper grammar in the first place.

Am I to expect this AI will improve over time?

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- hellishharlot@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Depending on how they’re training it, they’re likely looking at when grammarly corrections were accepted or rejected and the context around that. That’s what I’d be using from the dataset anyhow
  
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- csm10495@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Remember that people have said GPT4 is getting dumber because of interacting with humans.
  
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- lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  On average, people’s grammar is correct, kind of by definition.
  
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sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Grammarly is basically a keylogger anyway, with every stroke send to their servers. Why ANY business even allows their employees to use this is really beyond me.

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Mentrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I work in the field of data science and I really get why data is needed and why it makes sense to collect use data but enforcing this and now allowing to opt out free of charge is simply not okay

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Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean you’ve been using their service for free…

Listen I get people who but they have said they train their programs based on your responses for a while. If your not paying for these services then yeah they are going to monetize and improve the service off of what you do and includes ai.

Start paying for the services you use… And I don’t mean simple ten or twelve dollar a month plans, which I’m betting she doesn’t use either

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- puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What do you recommend she do? Spend for 500 accounts?
  
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  - Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Find better solutions. I found that grammarly results are similar to office. If you want to buy a product buying word versus renting grammarly would be a better choice.
    
    There’s multiple other websites that do the same as grammarly. But if you choose to go with a free option or low cost option this happens
    
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Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m quite certain this policy is illegal in some jurisdictions (read: the European Union).

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