Your coworkers can spot AI writing now. So can your clients.
The default style itself is doing it, so it shows up in every draft until you turn it off. And send one report with an invented number in it, and nobody remembers that AI wrote it.
Thirty five minutes, and you will have the banned phrase list pasted into settings, a thirty second check before you send, and a scam checker you can paste any message into.
Beginners. The part that fixes most of it takes about two minutes.
The proof behind this
Liz Elliott's main account, @liz.on.the.web, has 241,000 followers, and she runs 33 active social brands. Nothing goes out sounding like a default.
What this lesson is
Lesson 6.6 of the free AI for Entrepreneurs course, in Module 6: Trust And Safety.
There are three ways AI makes you look bad, and none of them are dramatic. The first is the writing. Every AI tool defaults to the same recognisable style, the same stock phrases, the same dramatic punctuation, the same handful of fancy words nobody uses out loud. The problem runs deeper than one bad draft, because the default style itself is doing it, and you can turn most of that off in about two minutes. The second is the confidence. AI writes wrong things in the same steady tone it writes right things, and when it goes out with your name on it, people remember that you sent it. The third works the other way around. A message arrives that is designed to fool you. Urgent, official looking, from your bank or your boss. Falling for one is not a sign that you are careless, because scammers do this for a living and they are good at it. The useful move is having something to check with before you click. Think about a new pair of shoes with the sticker still on the sole. Most AI embarrassment is a sticker problem.
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What you will be able to do
Paste one list into settings that stops AI writing from sounding like AI writing.
Run a thirty second check before you send anything AI helped you write.
Build a scam checker you can paste any suspicious message into.
Name the eight moves scammers use, and the one rule that beats all of them.
Find the tasks you repeat, and decide which ones you want to keep doing yourself.
Your first step
Open the settings box where your standing instructions live, because the writing fix goes there and it is the fastest win in this lesson. Before you paste anything, read one thing you sent last week that AI helped you write, and count the stock phrases in it. That number is what your clients have been seeing.
Behind the paywall
The banned AI writing list in full, ready to paste into settings
The thirty second check to run before you send anything
The scam checker project, and the things to say to it
The eight moves scammers use, and the one rule that beats all of them
What the scam checker cannot do, said plainly
How to see what you are actually handing over, plus the mistakes and the checklist
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