How to Spot AI Writing and Beat the Bots!!

Sherry Horowitz
2 min readJul 25, 2022
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

How I Spot AI Writing:

1. My eyes glaze over after the first paragraph.

2. I need to read sentences over and over again.

3. The content sounds logical, but when I’m finished I’m not sure of what it’s saying.

4. There’s a lack of actionable insight, or any insight at all.

5. There’s a sense of hackneyed references.

6. The information is tautological; e.g. uses weird, circular or redundant logic, lacks evidence, or a compelling premise.

A very common, (and irritating) example I see often on websites for Saas products:

“This Saas platform has all these features, so therefore it’s useful and you should use it.”

(If you’ve ever shopped around for Saas services, you’ll know it takes hours, no, days and days, of trial and error to figure out how exactly the product is useful to your own needs.)

7. The content is just so boring. There is a lack of any sort of relatable tone.

The jury is still out on whether filling pages with “content,” for SEO purposes is even useful.

AI generated content is only as good as the human being directing it.

It’s hard to generate good content that other humans want to read, ‘cuz, well, it’s hard to be human.

If it doesn’t feel human, it probably isn’t.

Gird yourself against the bot writers (and bad writers) with a deeper understanding of rhetorical and tautological thinking with a look at this source.

https://www.thoughtco.com/tautology-grammar-rhetoric-and-logic-1692528

Cheers!!

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