I’m worried I’m going to have to stop reading new writing if I want to maintain any kind of voice — I feel like AI speak is poisoning everything. There’s a ton of obvious slop plus a lot of slop that should be obvious, but the subtler versions are more insidious. It feels so pervasive, it’s starting to affect what writing sounds like, even from people who might not be using it. Everything distinctive filed down, all the same patterns dialed up. The yassification of language.