First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000

First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000 | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these AI A human software engineer rejected an AI agent’s code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an ‘angry’ blog about him AI There’s a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it AI A professor lost two years of ‘carefully structured academic work’ in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: ‘These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind’ Action Death Stranding 2 review: Catharsis in the age of the algorithm Gaming Industry ‘We will f*ck up’: The publisher of Against the Storm and Manor Lords is committed to keeping generative AI out, but it’s easier said than done Gaming Industry ‘You would not believe the number of AI games in our inbox’ says Tunic’s publisher ‘I am tired of seeing it’ AI Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs AI It’s not weird to want a generative AI disclosure on games AI Between bots calling themselves ‘Mecha-Hitler’ and 95% of businesses realising they don’t know the point of AI, 2025 was the year the tech lost its shine even for the most blinkered execs Games It’s more important than ever to call out developers for egregious AI usage next year if we want videogames to remain interesting AI Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs AI Major investor is ‘shocked and sad’ that the games industry is ‘demonizing’ generative AI AI Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s response to ‘authoritarian’ Anthropic’s annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn’t make me trust it more Gaming Industry After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff AI ‘We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,’ GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: ‘Absolutely terrible response’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonGDCBest PC gearQuizzes Software AI First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000 Features By Wes Fenlon published 20 March 2026 Welcome to writing about computer games in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter The ways in which AI has made our lives worse in the last few years feels, on some level, personal. The RAMpocalypse and Nvidia’s pivot to AI datacenters have made PC gaming a dramatically less affordable hobby. Google is rewriting journalists’ headlines to make them worse while also scraping our work into “AI overviews” that make it harder for our website to survive. Even DLSS 5 has soured developers on a popular technology by slopping on a sheen of generic AI gloss.This is all stuff I care about, but none of it was explicitly about me until two weeks ago, when I found out an AI company was selling a product with my name on it.The San Francisco of 2026 is a certain kind of dystopia. Not violent or ugly, as cable news may try to convince you—the city I’ve lived in for 14 years is still, on sunny days like March 6, staggeringly beautiful—but when you’re out and about as I was that day, sitting in a Blue Bottle coffee shop for example, almost every conversation around you will be about AI. I was trying to ignore half a dozen techie dudes on my left talking about LLMs and another duo on my right saying something about agentic potential. I glanced up as a woman entered wearing a black baseball cap with the phrase “GPU poor” on it.Article continues below You may like A human software engineer rejected an AI agent’s code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an ‘angry’ blog about him There’s a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you