Grammarly seems terrible recently

[gunhilltrain]

I mean recently, in the last month. It seems extremely slow, for one thing, and generally difficult to use. It used to be a pretty good program. Is there anything I can do to get back to the way it was?

 

[Jorunn]

One hundred percent with you on this. Free Grammarly helped me find simple grammar and spelling mistakes. It recommended fixes for poorly worded sentences - if I got the paid version. I don’t write enough to make that a good value.

Now, it is overrun with AI stuff. Simple is now a challenge. And after Grammarly cleanup I copied over to Word’s Spelling and Grammar check (not nice either). Word found some simple things I was surprised were not caught by Grammarly.

 

[StillStunned]

Weather forecasts have also become worthless. I assume they use AI as well, because there's not one that's correct. "Rain expected to stop in the next few hours". Great, but it hasn't rained for two days. "Thunderstorms likely tonight." Nope.

The only thing they get right is wind.

 

[gunhilltrain]

One hundred percent with you on this. Free Grammarly helped me find simple grammar and spelling mistakes. It recommended fixes for poorly worded sentences - if I got the paid version. I don’t write enough to make that a good value.

Now, it is overrun with AI stuff. Simple is now a challenge. And after Grammarly cleanup I copied over to Word’s Spelling and Grammar check (not nice either). Word found some simple things I was surprised were not caught by Grammarly.

Save the document in "classic mode." You can do that as soon as you paste the text in or upload it. (I paste it in.) I suspect there is some AI upgrade in the new version that is just not user-friendly. Maybe they'll get the bugs out eventually. Typical of how product designers can't leave well-enough alone.

 

[MrPixel]

Typical of how product designers can't leave well-enough alone.

What? And code themselves out of a job? Pshaw.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Weather forecasts have also become worthless. I assume they use AI as well, because there's not one that's correct. "Rain expected to stop in the next few hours". Great, but it hasn't rained for two days. "Thunderstorms likely tonight." Nope.

The only thing they get right is wind.

See my comment above about using "classic mode" instead of the new version. I'm guessing that they used some kind of AI "upgrade" and they didn't get the glitches out yet. Maybe someone on AH who works in tech can comment on the apparent frenzy to use AI without testing it properly.

 

[gunhilltrain]

What? And code themselves out of a job? Pshaw.

Yeah, it will probably give them at least an extra year's worth of work to straighten this out.

 

[VallesMarineris]

I dismissed Grammerly the moment long ago when I first saw its name, which is an ungrammatical neologism. That told me that it was run by the marketing department, not grammarians and copy editors. And so here we are.

 

[Actingup]

Weather forecasts have also become worthless. I assume they use AI as well, because there's not one that's correct. "Rain expected to stop in the next few hours". Great, but it hasn't rained for two days. "Thunderstorms likely tonight." Nope.

The only thing they get right is wind.

I believe that some forecasts have been affected by data quality issues from the US, but in general the official forecasts from weather services don't use much AI - they're either 'manual', or grid/numerical weather prediction based with manual intervention..