Why do we spot the bot voice so fast?

* We riff off our audience. Models average everyone.

* Real people leave fingerprints...jokes that land, typos that don’t.

* Polished‑generic prose feels like a local news anchor gate‑crashing your group chat.

How I keep drafts human:

1. Spell out who's talking and why. "Support rep, one frustrated customer."

2. Paste the customer’s actual rant. Makes the model sweat. 3. Drop a paragraph in my voice, ask it to revise. Works better than rules.

4. Crank temperature a notch, then chop anything weird.

5. Read it aloud. If it sounds like corporate wallpaper, I rough it upswap a comma for an em dash, toss in a "whoops."

That’s my routine. What’s yours? I’m collecting tricks so my inbox stops looking like office ceiling drop in tiles.