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Most AI-assisted writing is polished but empty 🕳️ We all know what AI slop is: content that feels a little soulless.

🧹🪣 Here are 4 ways to make your AI-assisted content sharper, more human, and more credible:

✅ Start with a point of view. If your prompt has no opinion, your piece will fall flat.
✔ Aim for a unique perspective that others haven’t covered before.
✔ Avoid generic claims by anchoring the draft in lived experience.
✔ Use it to structure outlines and ideas, not to relay the message.
✔ Utilise ‘you’ and ‘we’ to connect emotionally to the reader.
✅ Get rid of vague language that sounds polished at a glance, but says almost nothing.
✔ Replace generalities with concrete outcomes, numbers, and examples.
✔ Avoid punchy statements that sound like word salad.
✔ If the reader can’t picture it, the line is still too abstract.
✅ Remove the AI tells. Everyone is catching on to those.
✔ Remove cliché constructions like “It’s not X, it’s Y.”
✔ Watch for over-explaining sentences that restate the obvious.
✔ Rewrite anything stiff, generic, or oddly over-enthusiastic.
✔ Use em dashes very sparingly.
✅ Edit for voice, not grammar only. Clean writing isn't the same as good writing.
✔ Read it out loud so your ear catches what your eyes miss.
✔ Trim the fat. People’s attention spans are precious.
✔ Cut the obvious. Trust the reader to connect the dots.
✔ Compare your draft to a piece you really like.

The Geeks always seem to meet at the beach 🏖️ 😎 Kat and Kanita recently met up in Malta, where they chatted non-stop about Geeky Tech-related topics (or something like that 😄).