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What can you do about it? Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly. That's the article. Instead, we keep trying to find little tricks to keep the utility without su
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
What can you do about it?
Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly. That's the article. Instead, we keep trying to find little tricks to keep the utility without surrendering privacy.
High school and college essays are already full of enough mindless fluff and tropes. Why put everything you write into something that then makes you sound like a bot? Your essays will all end up with YouTube Face.
- toomanydoubts 5y agoHow about non-native English speakers that are using it as an way to take tips and improve their English writing?
- bananamerica 5y agoYeah. Grammarly greatly improved my English.
- lbriner 5y agoThere are plenty of ways to improve your English without grammarly.
- Spivak 5y agoYes but if people are gravitating towards Grammerly it's because it's offering something those other ways aren't. I mean I guess you can learn an instrument by reading sheet music and sheer force of will but I think most people prefer lessons.
- josourcing 5y ago> Yes but if people are gravitating towards Grammerly it's because it's offering something those other ways aren't. I disagree. Grammarly has bombarded the internet and YouTube with so many ads, there are ads that make fun of Grammarly ads. Nevertheless, people don't use it because it offers something that others don't. They use it because they don't know any better.
- watwut 5y agoI don't use it, but people I know who use it claim it helped them a lot. So, clearly, they found a lot of value in what it is doing. Even in this discussion, most suggestions for "better" is completely useless advice of "learn to write".
- bjt2n3904 5y agoI'd argue that's even worse for non native speakers. It's alluring, really I see it. This would be massive amounts of utility if I were trying to learn French. But the cost is it's not actually natural, it's what the AI says is natural.
- orhmeh09 5y ago> Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly. *Grammarly.
- eternityforest 5y agoI know how to write, but trimming down content the way grammerly does(Which is presumably what many want to see, since it's everywhere) , takes time. I've never been to school, and I probably wouldn't use it for anything like an essay in real life, but it seems good when brevity is the main critical factor and sounding like a bot is expected. I rarely ever see writing outside of actual books, and pre-2008ish news articles that specifically impresses me though, so maybe it's not the best for anything that matters, bot style writing does get pretty painful to read for hours.
- watwut 5y agoSounding like a bot is improvement for most high school essays. And the fact is, without someone or something correcting you, your learning to write will be much slower.