[lumost]

I kinda hate this, but it also seems like the only way to keep Grammarly in business. I've paid them for a personal account since 2016, since ChatGPT's launch - my usage has fallen precipitously. I can write utter stream of consciousness garbage, paste it into GPT-4, and get out a professional looking piece of text.

I'd definitely pay for a private AI assisted writing experience - the biggest blocker I have with using Grammarly is my inability to use it at work.

[fragmede]

Shouldn't the policy stopping you from using Grammarly at work also be stopping you from using ChatGPT?

[lumost]

Because of the step change in functionality, ChatGPT is not banned. However I am prohibited from using ChatGPT outputs in certain contexts. Unfortunately, Grammarly and ChatGPT are under different application classifications.

[w-ll]

I think the danger is more on what you input to Chatgpt... but true is same for Grammerly as all text typed in the web is sent to them right?

[lumost]

The difference is in the value returned. Punching queries into a third party search engine is also risky. If that search engine knew who you worked for, it could extract what you were working on and potentially how competent you were at it.

Now try telling engineers to not use google.

On the flip side, grammarly is often positioned by corporate security as a nice to have feature which can be replaced by offline spellcheck and internal web docs.

[vxNsr]

Probably can’t install chrome extensions, but the openai site isn’t blocked, yet.

[JohnFen]

> it also seems like the only way to keep Grammarly in business.

If that's true, then it raises the serious question of whether they should stay in business.

[bithavoc]

I pay for Notion which includes AI for docs and includes grammar corrections. Weird times