May 11, 2026

AI Content Paranoia

Paranoia...something I've started doing is running my own writing through AI detection tools.

It's to reassure myself that it doesn't look like I used AI to write it, which is a completely different and honestly more embarrassing problem.

The fact that "does this sound like a person wrote it" is now a thing you have to verify externally is probably worth sitting with for a bit.

AI Content Paranoia

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