Psst, do AI detectors keep flagging your writing? Then you’re probably the problem.
There’s been an especially grating genre of post on here lately, which is kinda impressive considering how dominated LinkedIn is by zero-calorie yapping.
Someone will post an image of AI detectors false flagging an ancient document, proclaim the tools digital charlatans, and either try to convince the reader to ignore them or use AI anyway since it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t.
If that sounds like you, let me hold your hand as I say this: Have you considered that your writing just sucks?
Yeah, AI detectors aren’t omniscient. They’re tuned to pick out patterns, specifically lazy ones. It’s why AI output can pass as human with paraphrasing.
Obviously, they’re not infallible. False flags are within the expected margin of error. They’ll even label their training material, which predated their existence, as 100% AI generated.
But if large sections of your (supposedly) human-written, non-technical or academic content keep getting flagged as AI…
Then it’s probably because they read like the homogenized sludge AI outputs. And that’s a you problem.
AI detectors aren’t out to get you. Your writing is simply so formulaic, so predictable, so voiceless, so boring that AI misrecognizes it as its own.
And there’s nothing wrong with starting there. We all do.
But the way to escape the suck is not to cope and run. It’s by embracing it. Learn, iterate, improve. Put in the work.
If you’re already producing slop, the last thing you want is to get more efficient at it.
By Seif Chaib.
Originally posted on Linkedin.