As someone from outside the Anglophone cultural sphere, when I first learned to write in English, the kind of writing that AI now often produces was taught to me as “formal" writing.

But these days, when I write in that formal style, people sometimes say it sounds like AI. That has been a difficult and frustrating point for me.

I still find the subtle difference hard to understand.

I'm still pissed that I had to practice removing that from my writing habits. I liked that device, dammit!

It's not just AI-generated, it's also slop!