ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: AI telltale signs: stop sounding like a bot
If you want e-mails, reports or press releases to sound human, avoid these phrases
09 February 2025 - 07:26
Every era has its linguistic giveaways. Victorians laced their letters with: “I am, your humble servant.” Corporate memos from the '90s pushed “paradigm shifts”, inspiring secret games of “boardroom bingo”. Now, AI-generated text has its own set of overused phrases that telegraph, or maybe WhatsApp: “This was written by a machine”.
If you want e-mails, reports or press releases to sound human, avoid these phrases:..
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