Sloppelgängers

Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.

Three times during a recent interview on The Verge‘s Decoder podcast, host Nilay Patel asked Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman, which owns Grammarly, the same question in different words: How much should you pay me to use my name?

“If your work is used, should you be attributed? Yes, I think you should,” Mehrotra said. “That would be the nice contract.”