Grammarly has quickly rolled back a controversial software feature after intense backlash. The short-lived feature was called “Expert Review,” and offered AI-generated writing advice delivered via sock puppet versions of living and dead writers, all created without their permission. The anger inspired by these “Experts” forced the company to back down this week. Grammarly used to be a sort of omnipresent spellcheck that followed you around your web browser, but has recently been much more invested in adding tons of AI products to mediate writing. As Miles Klee wrote in *Wired*, new features include a “chatbot that will answer specific questions as you compose a draft, a “paraphraser” feature that suggests changes in style, a “humanizer” that revises according to a selected voice, an AI grader that predicts how your document would score as college coursework, and even tools for flagging and tweaking phrases commonly produced by large language models.” It amounts to a completely overwhelming fleet of intrusive…