I stopped reading your post... Your AI was showing

I open LinkedIn everyday*. So I see new posts everyday. And so many are all the same. LinkedIn has become a breeding ground for AI. Someone writes an post using AI, someone comments using AI, or reposts it with a snippet of text clearly written by AI. It's AI exhausting me.

AI is having conversations with itself and humans are the facilitators. It's the backwards Turing test - is this human post really human or is it an AI? And, lot of people are passing.

If you want me to stop and connect with your post, the easiest way is to make it sound like a human has written it. Here's what I think you should avoid.

First things first—remove the emdash!

This isn't just the visibility of the symbol—it's how the sentence is structured.

AI loves to write in this "It's not just A—it's B" type of way. It's instantly recognisable as AI and makes me want to switch off immediately. If this person wasn't committed enough to their story to write it themselves as a human why should I read it as a human?

🚀 Death 👉 by 🎉 a 🤓 thousand 📚 emojis 🤯

Reading AI is like getting a text from my granddad. When my granddad 👴 found out you could write the word and then get a suggested emoji, they just wouldn't stop coming. At first I liked knowing how he was feeling, but his messages just got harder and harder to read.

I ❤️ emojis too, but the over-use of them? Sounds like my 🚨 AI alert 🚨

Use emojis like you use profanity... 🤫🤫🤫 sparingly but with a purpose.

Can you hear that buzzing (word) sound? 🐝

Some words just feel out of place. Sometimes it is of course the way that someone talks, but when there's 1-3 buzz words in every sentence? It's likely due to the overrepresented marketing copy being fed into AI. Do you really use the following words in ALL your sentences day-to-day? Or are these words reserved for certain topics? (I know my answer)

If you wouldn't say it to me at the coffee machine at work, I don't want to see it on your LinkedIn.

By the way - how did you find my bee emoji? I like it but with the overkill of emojis before it doesn't pack the punch I wanted it to... see my point?

AI sentence giveaways

Piggybacking on the above, it's not just words that give you away it's the sentences that start like this:

Again... you bump into me at work, are you really saying "Hey Lucy, the future of X is here!". I hope not otherwise you'll get me politely nodding but secretly drifting off thinking about what to have for dinner that evening.

To sum up...

As AI develops, we're seeing less human-human interaction. It seems there's always some technical tool in the middle of it. Can we remove it - or at least make it smaller - can connect once more as people? I miss you.

And look... AI is amazing, I am not saying don't use it. It even helped me write this article. But instead asking it to write the full thing, or even make a first draft, I spent the time doing that. Then I asked Claude...

hey does this paragraph make sense with what I said before?

hey give me some options on how to word this sentence?

...which gave me the tools I needed to tell the story I wanted.

I sincerely hope that you can tell this wasn't written predominantly by an AI. Yes it's taken more of my time, but that's given me a chance to reflect on my own thoughts. Additionally, putting that time into the writing upfront is going to take time away from the person reading it. I'm hoping I will engage more people than if I'd left this up to Claude. (I also couldn't live it down that I'd relied on AI to write an article on how to not write like AI...)

And isn't that the point of social media? To leverage technology to connect with the people behind the screen?

Footnotes

*I open LinkedIn daily because I play the daily puzzles, which reminds me I haven't done today's yet!