How to Stop AI Sounding Like AI
Most people using AI to write things have had the same moment: you read it back and something feels off. It's readable, but it doesn't sound like you. Here's exactly why that happens and how to fix it.
You can spot AI writing from across the room. Here's why it happens and the exact fixes that make it read like a person wrote it.
AI writing has a recognisable style, and most people can spot it now. The word "delve". The sentence that starts "In today's fast-paced world". The suspicious number of em dashes. The paragraph that says three things when one would do. The moment a reader spots one of these, they stop trusting what they're reading.
The good news is that none of this is inevitable. AI defaults to a certain style, but it will happily write in a completely different one if you tell it how. I edit AI-assisted writing every day, and the difference between a draft that sounds like a robot and one that sounds like a person usually comes down to a handful of instructions. Here they are.
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