You might be a wrAIter if

You might be a wrAIter if:

• The word "voice" shows up more than once every 1000 words. Specifically in dialogue tags, AI loves to use "voice" after a line of dialogue.

“Yes. Hello.” Her voice came out soft and careful. “You walked very well.”

“Thanks. I noticed you watching quite closely,” he continued, voice low enough

“Yes. It is really beautiful,” she replied softly, her voice barely above a whisper.

he said, voice turning a little rougher.

“Fuck, you feel perfect,” he said, voice low and rough with lust.

“Perfect,” he said, voice low and hungry.

she whispered, her voice shaky.

he said, voice rough.

“Fuck, you feel incredible,” he said, voice low and rough.

I pulled the above examples from ONE FIC.

• If said voice likes to break, crack, and shatter.

Her voice cracked slightly.

“Take your time,” you croak, voice cracking just a little.

“Daddy… please,” she begged, her voice breaking in a way that made my chest ache.

“Daddy,” she whimpered, her voice breaking as tears spilled down her cheeks.

"More... I want more," he growled, his voice now completely broken and animal.

"Tell me..." he growled, his voice broken and raspy.

"Look at yourself now, daddy..." she whispered, voice broken but full of triumph.

These are lines from different fics, the last 3 are from one fic.

• If said voice is something and then a modifier

Her voice is low but stern enough to make your stomach drop.

She asked, her voice barely above a whisper, lips brushing mine with each word.

“I’ve wanted to do that for a while,” she says. Quiet. The slow voice even slower.

"I didn't know how to." Flat even now, even like this, though her voice has a catch in it she can't quite smooth.

you said, voice a touch rougher than intended.

you said, voice low enough that only she could hear over the screaming crowd.

“I missed you too,” I said, my voice thick with emotion

You might not know which fics these lines come from but you most likely have read some variation of it before.

Most of these lines are just me going by "new stories" and finding them, they're not hard to find.

AI voices love to be quiet, cracking, breaking, rough, mixed with emotion, barely above a whisper. AI also loves to whisper, murmur, breathe, instead of using "voice". Once or twice with any of these is fine, but AI does it an alarming frequency, in the sense that it is so easy to detect once you start looking for it. Essentially AI cannot do:

"Fuck me." She's horny.

It doesn't do it, it'll describe her voice as mixed with lust and desire, it'll describe it as barely above a whisper, but it will not do the dialogue and a potentially unrelated description with no dialogue tag, it 100% will do a dialogue tag, because that's "correct".

• AI cannot shut up

This goes back to the descriptive thing I mentioned before, if everything is detailed, then nothing is detailed. This shows up more when people prompt AI for a large part of the fic.

The dimmed lights of the concert hall hummed with quiet intensity as the crowd outside waited for the show to begin.

“The concert hall lights dimmed as the crowd outside waited for the show to begin.”

I used 15 words to say what was written in 21 words. Now expand that level of verbosity to the whole story.

A small, appreciative smile curves her lips as she accepts the bottle, her fingers brushing lightly against yours in the exchange—a fleeting contact that feels charged in the warm air.

“She gives you a small smile as she accepts the bottle, brushing against your hand briefly.”

16 words instead of 30. Don't get me wrong if you really want to emphasize that touch, fine, but this level of detail extends to every single description in the story.

• AI comes up with the weirdest imagery

Crazy how it all started, like fireworks going off in the middle of a storm

The front door opened to a fancy foyer, clean wood walls, a floating staircase, and a chandelier like lightning made into glass.

A dark, almost black pool of blood has seeped through the dirt

It shows up the most in openings, when trying to set a scene. It’ll make you cock your head and think “what” a little, but I’m also guilty of just skipping to the “good stuff”. It’s an additional clue but not a telltale sign like the dialogue tags.

There are more signs that are more ambiguous, or more general AI writing stuff people know about (it’s not X, it’s Y), but it all starts with noticing the dialogue tags and descriptions, the inability to be brief.

Some writers use AI tools to help with their writing, and they do not realize that it is adding these "artifacts" into their stories. Well it is, it becomes samey, it raises red flags, so put the effort in and at least review the work AI tools spit out.