Grammarly cloned Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, charged $12/month for their "expert advice," and never told a single one of them. Now there's a class-action lawsuit, a CEO apology that backfired, and a Sam Altman quote that somehow makes it worse.

Juan and Kate break down how Grammarly created AI Sloppelgängers — degraded digital copies of real people, monetized without consent, credit, or even a heads-up. Stephen King, Carl Sagan, recently deceased professors. All selling advice they never gave.

Full disclosure: Juan was a Grammarly brand ambassador and has since parted ways with the company.

Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every week.

Chapters:

00:00 What If Someone Was Already Selling Advice In Your Name?

00:21 The Billion Dollar Company Behind This

01:00 Sloppelgängers: The Term That Explains Everything

01:18 Why Juan Walked Away From Grammarly

01:43 When Grammarly Actually Made You Better

02:32 Stephen King, Carl Sagan, and a $12/Month Price Tag

03:04 The $5M Lawsuit That Triggered This

03:29 The CEO Wrote an Apology. It Backfired.

05:25 They Didn't Ask. They Didn't Tell Anyone.

05:49 She Tested Her Own AI Clone. It Was Bad.

06:25 This Starts to Feel Like Theft and Slander

07:03 Grammarly Says the Lawsuit Has No Merit

08:35 Big Tech Already Decided Who Owns Your Work

12:00 They Take Your Work. Then Sell It Back to You.

12:55 This Is Coming For You Too