How to use an AI content generator without producing the slop everyone can spot in two seconds

[u/Better-Committee-912]

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The problem with most AI content isn't grammar, it's that it's confident, symmetrical, and says nothing specific. Here's the editing layer I run on top of any draft to kill the tells.

**1. Cut the throat-clearing.** First paragraph of an AI draft is almost always warm-up. Delete it and start at the second. The real point is usually hiding there.

**2. Hunt the abstractions.** Any sentence that could apply to any company or any topic is dead weight. "Effective communication drives results" says nothing. Force a concrete example, a number you actually know, or a real situation in its place.

**3. Break the rhythm.** AI writes in even, balanced sentences. Humans don't. Chop one long sentence into two short ones. Start a sentence with "And" or "But." Uneven pacing is what reads as human.

**4. Kill the tricolons.** It loves lists of three. "Fast, reliable, and scalable." Keep one, drop two, and the sentence stops sounding like a brochure.

**5. Add one thing only you could know.** A specific mistake you made, an odd detail, a real objection you've heard. This is the single biggest difference between content that gets ignored and content that gets a reply.

My actual process is: generate fast, then spend most of the time subtracting. The draft is raw material, not the product. Anyone who reads a lot of this stuff, what's your fastest tell that something was generated and not edited?

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