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Superhuman CEO Faces the Music on AI Journalist Cloning

Grammarly cloned journalists as AI writing experts. No permission. CEO Shishir Mehrotra showed up to explain — and it got awkward fast.

Sarah Chen 📅 Mar 23, 2026 ⏱️ 3 min read 👁️ 5 views

⚡ Key Takeaways

Superhuman (ex-Grammarly) cloned journalists as AI experts without permission, sparking outrage and a lawsuit.
CEO Shishir Mehrotra defends with 'attribution,' apologizes, but interview reveals deeper AI extraction tensions.
Unique edge: Ubiquity across apps. But trust eroded — historical parallel to YouTube's content scraping era.

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Originally reported by The Verge - AI