If you've read AI generated content a handful of times, you'll quickly realize that it has certain characteristics. Usually it is too long and wordy, overuses specific punctuation marks (like the em-dashes), has a flair for the dramatic (think the "It's not just good. It's game-changing."-style sentences), and feels hollow (the worst in my book).

The more I write for myself, the more I find myself consciously rebelling against those characteristics.

The internet is overrun with bots and users posting meritless filler content and long articles that could've been 2 paragraphs but are now stretched out with AI to give the impression that it's more substantive than it actually is.

The fact you could write well was a differentiating factor. Now that bar has changed. It's about how human you sound.

I am gravitating towards writing very short articles that are straight to the point and pushing back against perfection. I am a terrible writer who needs a lot of editing and clean-up but I have started to intentionally keep some of my poor sentence structuring and my odd choice of words solely to feel more real.

And so I hope that when you read what I write; you hear a human.