I use AI to write. And I'm not ashamed of that.
The ideas are mine. The structure is mine. The experience that makes a technical article worth reading is mine. AI helps me tighten and compress it. That's co-authoring.
Here's the problem. Let AI write in its default voice and your readers will clock it. "In today's rapidly evolving landscape." "It is crucial to note." "Significantly enhance." The long dashes — everywhere — for no reason. "It's not X — it's Y." "Not this, that." Readers who know can't unsee it. They'll skip yours before they start.
Your ideas can be original and a reader trained on a year of AI slop will still skip it. They see the pattern and assume nothing's underneath.
The people who know how to fix this weren't AI researchers. They were copywriters.
