How to sound like a human, not a robot, in the age of AI

Last year, The Economist named “AI Slop” as its 2025 word of the year. “Slop merchants clog up the internet with drivel,” it wrote. Search Google for a health question and you’ll find endless articles filled with AI-written drivel. Scroll through Instagram and it won’t be long before you come across fake clips stitched together with an AI voice-over. We’ve all seen it. AI slop is almost impossible to escape. And it stands to reason that being surrounded by it long enough, we’ll eventually beg...