Keep your voice (this text is 100% human generated)
After a while you will be able to recognize the slop. Open Facebook, open LinkedIn, open an Email newsletter. You will find the same patterns, the same bullet points, the same gushing language. There are (of course) multiple problems with that.
Let me start with a non-obvious one. I find that my writing changes based on the slop I’ve been fed. I write this post without a plan, without a structure and without AI support. And still I can feel that I gravitate towards the same slop-style of writing that I’ve been exposed to over the last year or so. The thought alone is horrible. We are loosing our voices — not only because we use AI to (help us) write, but because we are exposed to so much of the blandness that AI writing is.
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