I see at least one email or LinkedIn post a day that screams "written by AI".
Using AI is fine, but if there’s no human fingerprint I drift off midway...same reaction as if I realize a cool photo is a fake.<p>Why do we spot the bot voice so fast?<p>* We riff off our audience. Models average everyone.<p>* Real people leave fingerprints...jokes that land, typos that don’t.<p>* Polished‑generic prose feels like a local news anchor gate‑crashing your group chat.<p>How I keep drafts human:<p>1. Spell out who's talking and why. "Support rep, one frustrated customer."<p>2. Paste the customer’s actual rant. Makes the model sweat.
3. Drop a paragraph in my voice, ask it to revise. Works better than rules.<p>4. Crank temperature a notch, then chop anything weird.<p>5. Read it aloud. If it sounds like corporate wallpaper, I rough it upswap a comma for an em dash, toss in a "whoops."<p>That’s my routine. What’s yours? I’m collecting tricks so my inbox stops looking like office ceiling drop in tiles.