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From time to time I used grammarly to adjust my writing style when sending an important e-mail. I paid a subscription to it. The day I typed my first question
by henry2023 3y ago
From time to time I used grammarly to adjust my writing style when sending an important e-mail. I paid a subscription to it.
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.
- thih9 3y agoIsn’t grammarly in a relatively good place as it already has an audience, a market fit and a way to expand its products with AI?
- idopmstuff 3y agoI think their biggest issue is that every place where Grammarly is used (e.g. email clients, word processors) is owned by a much larger corporation with a huge investment in AI that can pretty easily launch a Grammarly replacement as a native feature.
- thih9 3y agoTrue. At the same time this seems unrelated to “The day I typed my first question into ChatGPT”.
- PumpkinSpice 3y agoWhy? The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor and not really tailored for writing. I'd wager that most of the current Grammarly users would rather pay for a tailored tool than a chat window that excels at schooling you and refusing to do anything that doesn't align with OpenAI's sprawling brand safety rules. 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.
- idopmstuff 3y ago> The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor 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.
- qwytw 3y ago> Grammarly is already working on that, and they might end up paying OpenAI for the technology. Unless they get a very good deal using the GPT-4 API might end up too expensive for their use case.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoI use both products (I'm also an author so YMMV). Grammarly has the UX down. For authors, gpt doesn't compare.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoI found Grammarly to be atrociously bad when dealing with anything slightly technical in nature. It would keep flagging jargon as errors. I was convinced that their $100M+ raise had to be some Adam Neuman-tier grift
- jgalt212 3y agoI don't know about that, but they definitely seem to have a bottomless supply of money to spend on advertising.
- kibibu 3y agoI worry that all individuality will be stripped from our communications. Let people have idiosyncrasies.
- AceyMan 3y agoI enjoyed Grammarly and I'm sure they enjoyed mapping my prose for training purposes. 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.)
- spaceman_2020 3y agoTotally agree. You get so much of personality from honest, unedited emails and messages. 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.
- mfld 3y agoCheck out editGPT for an improved UI