Why? The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor and not really tailored for writing. I'd wager that most of the current Grammarly users would rather pay for a tailored tool than a chat window that excels at schooling you and refusing to do anything that doesn't align with OpenAI's sprawling brand safety rules.

Of course, GPT-4 can be molded into an editing-centric companion, but I bet Grammarly is already working on that, and they might end up paying OpenAI for the technology.

Brand recognition means that it's a lot easier for Grammarly to build that product than for a random third party to break through.

> The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor

But all the editors where Grammarly is integrated are owned by Google/Microsoft/etc., who can natively implement a writing-tailored AI as a feature.

> Grammarly is already working on that, and they might end up paying OpenAI for the technology.

Unless they get a very good deal using the GPT-4 API might end up too expensive for their use case.

I use both products (I'm also an author so YMMV).

Grammarly has the UX down. For authors, gpt doesn't compare.

I found Grammarly to be atrociously bad when dealing with anything slightly technical in nature. It would keep flagging jargon as errors. I was convinced that their $100M+ raise had to be some Adam Neuman-tier grift

I worry that all individuality will be stripped from our communications. Let people have idiosyncrasies.

I enjoyed Grammarly and I'm sure they enjoyed mapping my prose for training purposes.

When I began to consistently compose 1000+ word passages, all while never triggering a red squiggle, I realized I'd gotten everything I needed from the tool and I uninstalled the addins. (I was a fully paid single user, btw.)

Totally agree. You get so much of personality from honest, unedited emails and messages.

Communication isn’t just information. It’s also how relationships are built. I get an email that was run through a dozen rounds of spell check and AI wizardry and I won’t even know who you really are.

I don't know about that, but they definitely seem to have a bottomless supply of money to spend on advertising.

Isn’t grammarly in a relatively good place as it already has an audience, a market fit and a way to expand its products with AI?

I think their biggest issue is that every place where Grammarly is used (e.g. email clients, word processors) is owned by a much larger corporation with a huge investment in AI that can pretty easily launch a Grammarly replacement as a native feature.

True. At the same time this seems unrelated to “The day I typed my first question into ChatGPT”.

Check out editGPT for an improved UI