Journalists & Writers - Deliberately Imperfect Writing to Avoid AI
Hello friends, this one is SPECIFICALLY for the fellow journalists.
I'm working on a piece about writers who are deliberately soundinglesspolished just to avoid being mistaken for AI.
So I'm curious...
Have you ever:
- Changed your writing style because you didn't want it to sound AI-generated?
- Deleted words likequietorenduring, or caught yourself avoiding the "not this, but this" style of phrasing because it felt a little too ChatGPT-coded?
- Swapped out an em dash, toned down overly polished prose, or deliberately left in a few imperfections?
- Had a client, editor or publication question whether something you wrote was AI-generated because of a detector?
If any of this has happened to you, I'd love to hear about it.
Drop your experience in the comments or slide into my DMs. I'm especially keen to hear from journalists, editors, copywriters, authors and anyone who writes professionally.
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