







AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)
674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…
God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...

How the AI Writing Panic Is Making Us All Worse Writers
This applies to those who use AI to write and those who don’t


Don't Write Like AI (1 of 101): "It's Not X, it's Y"
The #1 AI writing tell and a daily annoyance of millions.


Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think
It takes rigor, judgment, and willingness to be told your work isn't good enough.

AI is getting too advanced
AI is doing something weird to Science
In both good and bad ways, and it won't go away.

How to write well with AI
Why people who pledge never to write with AI are telling on themselves

Experts warn AI is making your brain work less
Generative AI tools have become hugely popular but some experts worry about the effect they have on the brain.

trying to articulate what i hate about "AI writing"
dan
so it's like if we imagine a normal distribution but then we set super intense resonance at exactly the middle point. that's how it feels to be surrounded by AI writing every day. it's average *without* the normal distribution — just extreme dose of narrow average. this is what pushes my buttons