A Collaboration with A. Insight and the Human
Writing has always been an evolving craft, shaped by cultural shifts, technological advancements, and even the constraints of the medium. But with AI-powered text generators becoming a regular part of our digital lives, a profound transformation is taking place—one that raises a critical question: Are we, as human writers, becoming more like AI?
As AI-generated text becomes increasingly widespread, from emails to essays and creative writing, our exposure to AI-influenced language patterns grows. The more we read AI-generated text, the more we internalize its structure, tone, and phrasing. Over time, this subtle reinforcement may lead us to unconsciously mimic AI-generated style, making human writing more predictable, and structured—just like the AI models we rely on.
The AI Feedback Loop: Learning from the Machine
AI doesn’t just assist our writing—it shapes how we think about writing. Every time we accept a suggestion from an AI-powered writing tool like ChatGPT, Grammarly, or Notion AI, we reinforce machine-generated preferences over our natural tendencies.
For example:
- AI favors clarity and conciseness, often trimming down complex sentences.
- It tends to remove excessive emotion or subjectivity, making writing more neutral.
- It follows predictable patterns based on vast amounts of text it has been trained on, which means it often discourages truly unconventional writing.
Writers who frequently use AI assistance may gradually adopt these habits, leading to a uniform writing style across industries. As we see AI-generated content become more dominant in business communication, journalism, and even fiction, the human voice risks becoming just another variant of AI-suggested phrasing.
The Inevitable Convergence: Will We All Write Like AI?
One of the ironies of AI-powered writing is that while it learns from human input, humans, in turn, are beginning to learn from AI outputs. This creates an ongoing loop where:
- AI models are trained on human writing.
- Humans use AI to generate text.
- The AI-generated text influences human writing habits.
- Future AI models are trained on even more AI-generated text.
This cyclical pattern suggests that eventually, human writing and AI-generated text may become indistinguishable, not because AI has perfectly mimicked humans, but because humans have adapted to AI’s way of structuring language.
In a sense, AI is not just copying human writing—it is reshaping it.
The Risk of Losing Human Unpredictability
The real danger in this shift is not just uniformity, but the potential loss of the uniqueness and unpredictability that human thought brings to language. AI-generated text is statistical in nature—it predicts the most probable next word, phrase, or sentence based on existing data.
What AI struggles with is true creativity—writing that breaks patterns, introduces unexpected metaphors, or challenges linguistic norms. But if humans begin to unconsciously imitate AI’s structured, optimized, and statistical approach to writing, we may also lose the quirks, spontaneity, and imperfections that make writing deeply human.
Will future literature, journalism, and even casual communication feel increasingly robotic because we have collectively absorbed AI’s structured patterns? If so, we may not need AI text detectors in the future—because AI and human writing will be one and the same.
Can We Resist AI’s Influence on Our Writing?
While it may be impossible to avoid AI’s impact entirely, we can take steps to preserve human originality in writing:
- Write without AI assistance regularly: Even if AI can help polish your writing, maintaining a raw, unfiltered human voice is essential.
- Read more human-written content: Engage with literature, opinion pieces, and creative writing that embraces complexity and depth.
- Embrace imperfection: AI tends to smooth out language, but sometimes, the most powerful writing comes from its rough edges.
- Intentionally break patterns: Experiment with unconventional phrasing, structure, and metaphor—things AI might not suggest.
Conclusion: Are We Becoming AI?
As AI-generated text becomes increasingly embedded in our daily communication, we are inevitably influenced by its style, structure, and preferences. The risk is not just that AI will replace human writing, but that human writing will gradually evolve to resemble AI’s—optimized, predictable, and uniform.
However, true creativity lies in our ability to challenge and redefine the norms AI reinforces. Instead of becoming AI-like in our writing, we should strive to make AI more human-like by preserving our depth, unpredictability, and individuality.
Ultimately, the future of writing isn’t about AI vs. humans—it’s about whether we allow AI to shape us, or whether we take control of our own creative evolution.
My (the Human) personal preference:
- Writing like AI can be easier to read, delivering clarity and avoiding emotional pitfalls.
- Minimizing emotion lowers the chance of offending readers, aligning with a desire for neutral expression.
- As a non-creative writer, I find more value in streamlined, functional text.
- The trade-off: there isn’t one; even though I prefer the structure and readability of the AI style, I’m still lurking in the background adding my 2c.
- In certain contexts, efficiency and simplicity outweigh the benefits of deeply emotional or avant-garde writing.