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by PumpkinSpice 962 days ago
Why? 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.
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idopmstuff 962 days 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.

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qwytw 962 days 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.

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