When Everyone Writes Like ChatGPT: The Death of the Unique Voice

A single, pressing problem has emerged online: our writing, shaped by AI, is losing its individuality, blending into a predictable and indistinguishable chorus.

Lately, everything I read seems cut from the same cloth. The names and topics shift, yet the voice, pacing, and polished, safe language all merge, reducing once-distinct personalities into one unified tone.

It’s everywhere.

From LinkedIn posts to Medium essays to corporate newsletters, you can predict not just how the piece will begin but also how it will build and ultimately end. And that predictability isn’t just dull — it stings, leaving a strange emptiness.

“It’s not that the writing is bad. It’s that it all sounds good in the exact same way.”

A few years ago, things were different. Writing had fingerprints. You could sense who was behind the words, even if they weren’t perfect. Some wrote like jazz, while others wrote like math equations. Others wrote like they were confiding in you at 2 a.m. over text.

It wasn’t all brilliant, but it sparkled with life.

Then came AI — and it changed everything, not just how we write, but how our voices reach readers.

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