Source: https://front-end.social/@fox/110846484782705013

Text in the screenshot from Grammarly says:

We develop data sets to train our algorithms so that we can improve the services we provide to customers like you. We have devoted significant time and resources to developing methods to ensure that these data sets are anonymized and de-identified.

To develop these data sets, we sample snippets of text at random, disassociate them from a user’s account, and then use a variety of different methods to strip the text of identifying information (such as identifiers, contact details, addresses, etc.). Only then do we use the snippets to train our algorithms-and the original text is deleted. In other words, we don’t store any text in a manner that can be associated with your account or used to identify you or anyone else.

We currently offer a feature that permits customers to opt out of this use for Grammarly Business teams of 500 users or more. Please let me know if you might be interested in a license of this size, and I’II forward your request to the corresponding team.

    • fcSolar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Per their website premium includes “Unlimited sentence paraphrasing powered by A.I.” so I’m not sure they’re an appropriate alternative to avoid the “AI” bullshit.

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        102·
        1 year ago

        You can’t avoid the AI “bullshit”. It’s like saying you want to avoid this portable phone craze. It’s a tool.

        • fcSolar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I can avoid it like I’ve avoided cryptocurrency and NFTs. And it may be a “tool,” but it’s one built on the theft from and unpaid labor of tens of thousands of independent creators, and is nigh wholly controlled by corporate interests bent on eliminating those same independent creators whose data they stole to make their “tools.” It should not exist. Not until it can be made in an ethical manner without harming the creatives necessary to make it.

          • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            11·
            1 year ago

            The whole system is built on exploitation. I don’t see you boycotting luxury clothes, diamond, rare metal that are made by exploiting someone from a third world country to inhuman levels. Ah, yes. It could affect people you know, It’s immoral now. Am tired of this hypocrisy.

      • Bluefold@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 year ago

        I have. It’s pretty short and to the point. They’re based out of Germany so their requirements for clarity are pretty high by law. They go into quite a lot of detail about what is sent.

        In this case they send date, time, language, processing time, number and the type of errors, but not the text itself

        However, they do have an optional feature that uses OpenAI to rephrase sentences so that might be training through the back door.

        I’ve been using it for years and have been very happy with the service.

    • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Can confirm good drop in replacement. Also self hostable (to a point )

    • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
      320·
      1 year ago

      I appreciate you spreading open source alternatives, but this is one of those things that needs an HR solution; not IT.