Using Grammarly Won’t Make You a Better Writer
AI helps with accuracy but destroys creativity
Grammarly is not your editor.
Grammarly will not make you a better writer.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against using AI to check texts for punctuation errors and spelling mistakes. It’s incredibly helpful, especially for multilingual writers, as it makes work more accurate. Of course, it’s difficult for even the most diligent writers to spot their own inaccuracies. Our writing brains have in-built auto-correct filters, and robots do not.
The purpose of this article is not to tell writers to consign Grammarly (or any other AI writing tool) to the bin, but to advise caution.
Nowadays, we have the tendency of grasping hold of any time-saving or labour-saving device. Great, we think, let’s get started and our problems will be solved.
The real issue here is the abdication of responsibility — leaving key decisions about your text to a computer. While AI can only formulate data, writing is human. Language is fluid and the meaning we take from words depends on context, audience, and purpose.
AI can’t assess the quality of the meaning you convey. It doesn’t know anything about your linguistic and cultural background, nor does it understand who…
