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Grammarly has approximately 40 million daily active users.
Journalist Julie Angwin filed a class-action lawsuit against Superhuman over its 'Expert Review' feature, which used authors' names without permission.
Shashir Mohotra believes the claims in the class-action lawsuit regarding the 'Expert Review' feature are without merit.
Superhuman argues that its 'Expert Review' feature did not constitute impersonation because it included clear disclosures stating suggestions were "inspired by" specific works and that the company had no relationship with the named individuals.
Superhuman plans to offer a 70-30 revenue split for creators who build and sell agents on its upcoming expert platform.
Superhuman has launched a platform called Superhuman Go, which allows third parties to build and deploy their own AI agents that integrate into user workflows similarly to Grammarly.
Superhuman is the new corporate name for the company formerly known as Grammarly, a change made in late 2023.
Superhuman owns the document collaboration tool Coda and the email client Mail.
Superhuman's products, including Grammarly, are used across approximately one million different applications and websites daily.
Superhuman's initial response to public criticism of its 'Expert Review' feature was to offer an email-based opt-out, before later discontinuing the feature entirely.
The names of experts used in Grammarly's 'Expert Review' feature were generated by a popular large language model such as Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT.
Shashir Mohotra believes that the negative public perception of AI is primarily caused by people's fear of job displacement, rather than concerns about data extraction or likeness appropriation.