Detect and eliminate common AI writing tropes from prose. Use when drafting,
Comprehensive catalog of AI writing patterns that make text feel machine-generated. Any single pattern used once might be fine. The problem is when multiple tropes appear together or when one trope repeats throughout a piece.
When writing or editing prose:
Overused vocabulary and phrasing that AI defaults to. See references/word-choice.md.
Key offenders: "quietly", "delve", "tapestry", "landscape", "serves as", "leverage", "robust", "harness", "streamline".
Formulaic sentence patterns that no human writes at scale. See references/sentence-structure.md.
Key offenders: negative parallelism ("not X — it's Y"), dramatic countdowns ("Not X. Not Y. Just Z."), self-posed rhetorical questions, anaphora abuse, tricolon abuse, gerund fragment litanies.
Layout and organization patterns that betray AI generation. See references/paragraph-structure.md.
Key offenders: short punchy fragments as standalone paragraphs, listicles disguised as prose.
Voice and framing habits that sound performative. See references/tone.md.
Key offenders: false suspense ("Here's the kicker"), patronizing analogies ("Think of it as..."), false vulnerability, stakes inflation, vague attributions, invented concept labels.
Visual and typographic tells. See references/formatting.md.
Key offenders: em-dash addiction, bold-first bullets, unicode decoration.
Document-level structural problems. See references/composition.md.
Key offenders: fractal summaries, dead metaphors beaten into the ground, historical analogy stacking, one-point dilution, signposted conclusions.
Before delivering prose, ask:
Write like a human: varied, imperfect, specific.