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That feeling when you recreate human stupidity for the sake of realism.
AI startup's 'anti-Grammarly' tool that inserts typos to mimic human emails divides opinion: 49.3% supportive, 18.4% confronting. Read reactions and ethics.
NEW: AI startup unveils "anti-Grammarly" tool that adds typos & grammatical errors to emails to make them seem human-written.
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What the community is saying — both sides
We spent years building tools to make writing flawless, then built new tools to deliberately reintroduce mistakes so AI output looks human — people are amused and incredulous.
Commenters see a circular SaaS stack (generation → detection → de‑detection) that monetizes plausibility, burns compute, and extracts margins without improving writing.
Typos and small flaws have become trust signals; polished prose can now read like a bot, so imperfection is being engineered as a feature.
AI writers, detectors, and anti‑detectors are already in competition — observers worry this will make it harder to tell humans from machines and create brittle detection dynamics.
Many argue adding typos is cosmetic — a “fake patina” that misses the real markers of human writing (quirks, priorities, tangents) and thus won’t truly replicate authenticity.
Several replies point out you can just prompt models to inject errors or manually remove em‑dashes; critics call the standalone product redundant.
Some users find the idea useful for emails or cover letters, while others raise ethical and educational concerns about deception, trust erosion, and corporate communication implications.
(one person, turn off Grammarly, ChatGPT, iPhone AutoCorrect).
and makes "real" indistinguishable from manufactured.
and a pointless use of attention and resources.
or a shorting opportunity.
, with replies calling out xenophobic undertones.
, producing worse incentives long‑term.
these manufactured signals so real authors can be verified.
, so the tactic may backfire.
rather than a serious startup.
, and some argue current AI can’t reliably mimic human messiness.
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That feeling when you recreate human stupidity for the sake of realism.
🤣 gotta remove em-dashes and weird ai-isms too
Next genius move: self driving cars that occasionally veer into ditches so cops think it’s a real Uber driver.
Dude we really went full circle 😂
what stage of the simulation are we in right now?
Wtf we don't need a startup doing that, current AI is already allowing that, just prompt it
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