Grammarly Fails to Understand Human Writing

Not shocked at all. In grad school, I was in a group with two fellow students for the semester. The end project was a paper that would be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. After a few meetings, we had to choose our roles in the creation of the paper. The writing contributions of my companions was clunky and unclear- surprising, considering these were smart people. Being a decent writer, I volunteered to be the editor, who made sure sentences were correct, ideas connected and the work supported the thesis. At some point it came out that both of them ran their work through Grammarly before submitting them. Later I found out from my faculty advisor that almost every student was doing the same, and the quality of writing in the program was suffering overall, creating a lot of extra work for the bewildered faculty. I knew without a doubt to never trust Grammarly for my own writing.

"It also proves that writing is so much more than some arbitrary, surface features."

It also proves the people behind so-called "tech" companies like Grammarly do not understand this simple fact. It would be surpsiing if any of them enjoyed writing.