If I've known someone for awhile, and they're now using AI, I can tell instantly, without any magic tools. It takes their personality right out of it. We all leave fingerprints behind when we convert our thoughts into physical form. Wipe those off and you can't distinguish one person from the next.

Language and communication, that's one. It's one set of rules, basically. One entity, in a sense. Yet we all sound different. Each one of us, unique.

Over the years I've seen countless complaints, "I wrote 2000 words and these people aren't upvoting me. Spent all that time researching a topic and these people aren't upvoting me. The writing is perfect and so much better than member X so why aren't they upvoting me."

It's only natural to become curious so you go look at their work. 9 times out of 10 there's no personality, at all. It's just words. They've completely removed themselves from their work, then want others to upvote them, but removed majority of the ways another human can connect with them. They've become the book rather than the author. And now AI is helping people make that common mistake.