To Use Grammarly or Not? Retraction

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*Retraction

3-12-2026 I apologize I misunderstood the accusations about Grammarly. To clarify, Grammarly AI misrepresented their AI suggestions with names of experts who did not produce the content.

This is still alarming for writers and we should be diligent to protect our content across the board.

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Grammarly has supposedly been crediting writers and other content/business producers for their own originality. I almost couldn't believe it; here's the scoop from The Verge. I just wanted to create this post to notify all of Grammarly's patrons to make sure they are aware. So, please re-share!

Warning to Freelance Writers

If you're like me and struggling to build a legitimate business, you need reliable editing tools. Let me restate: the use of AI is, or should be, permitted to produce final drafts that promote your brand and formalize/enhance media for your readers. Grammarly is not meant to be used as some do, to automate marketing posts and omit the fundamental, unique skills a writer possesses.

My concern is that this corporation may take legal action against us who actually use Grammarly for legitimate editing purposes.

Why is This Harmful to Content Producers in General?

Photo credit to Wix, and Steven Johnson

I vaguely remember a writing course mentor telling us never to post too many blog posts or free samples. Freelance Writing is a hobby for some, but for others, it's their livelihood. I just cancelled my subscription to Grammarly today, and encourage you to consider doing the same.

Freelance writers find it challenging enough to find work, especially in this mostly automated online environment. There are already so many obstacles for us: finding the right contacts and the best way to reach them.

Other barriers include:

• Seasonal or temporary assignments

• Disconnect between marketing managers, executives, and writers.

• Missed or overlooked submissions

• No needs or not at this time; needs change; editors leave; high turnover

• No response at all, outsourcing, in-house writers only

• Emails bounced back because business servers treat our inquiries as spam

Anyway, let's try to stop the automated, impersonal tools that may be adding to the stress of writing for our businesses and allowing freebies or our copyrighted work to be potentially stolen by larger companies like Grammarly, Meta, or both.

Attention, All Content Providers: Are we giving our content away for free to other platforms?

Can anyone relate to the idea that perhaps our submissions aren't rejected, perhaps our constant effort to influence the media has had the media influencing us? Our content provides platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, and all the others with never-ending content. So, there's no need for freelancers or writing services, etc.

These platforms dare to seek paid member subscriptions or Premium business plans, ever wonder why? As if they don't make enough $ already. Perhaps businesses and freelance writers should consider charging these social media outlets per post, per scroll, or per click to other outside business websites.

Just food for thought and your written or imaged words/videos-

Feel free to comment below, on social, or directly to info@writefully-yours.com today.

P.S. I used Grammarly for editing this article, but cancelled my subscription earlier this morning. As mentioned on the site, Grammarly and AI at Writefully Yours are used only for refining our original work.

Until we pen again, Writefully, and originally yours,

Hannah Darnell