Grammarly, the cloud-based typing assistant, is set to launch a new feature called Personalized voice detection and application. This feature automatically detects a person’s unique writing style and creates a voice profile that can rewrite any text in that person’s style. Each profile comes with an AI-generated description that highlights the defining characteristics of the person’s style. Users can customize their profiles to a certain degree by discarding elements that don’t accurately reflect their writing style. However, there are concerns about how this technology could be misused, such as using a writer’s voice profile to publish blog posts without their approval or impersonating someone in a phishing attempt. Thousands of authors have signed an open letter decrying generative AI technologies that mimic their language and ideas. Some writers have even sued AI startup OpenAI for alleged IP theft. While Grammarly’s voice profiles are initially limited to individual users and cannot be exported, there are concerns about how they might evolve in the future. Grammarly claims that the feature is meant to help writers learn about their own voice and write in a more authentic way.
