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Let’s examine this pile of AI slop, generated by ChatGPT:
If you’re a writer, you’ve probably noticed something changing fast:
AI isn’t replacing the need for great writing.
It’s changing how great writers work.
The opportunity isn’t to hand your writing over to AI and hope for the best. It’s to learn how to use AI as a thinking partner, research assistant, editor, brainstorming companion, and productivity tool—while keeping your voice, judgment, and creativity firmly in the driver’s seat.
That’s the idea behind AI for Writers, a course from Trust Insights.
It’s designed for writers who want practical ways to incorporate AI into their workflow—not just another collection of generic “prompt engineering” tips.
Because knowing how to ask AI to “write me a blog post” isn’t the same as knowing how to use AI well.
The real advantage comes from understanding:
→ Where AI can genuinely accelerate your writing process
→ How to develop better ideas and stronger drafts
→ How to use AI for research without surrendering your critical thinking
→ How to edit, refine, and improve your work with AI
→ How to maintain your unique voice and perspective
→ How to build an AI-assisted workflow that actually saves time
Whether you’re a content marketer, copywriter, journalist, author, communications professional, or simply someone who writes as part of your job, these skills are becoming increasingly valuable.
The writers who thrive in an AI-powered world won’t necessarily be the ones who use AI the most.
They’ll be the ones who know when, where, and how to use it well.
If you’re ready to make AI a useful part of your writing toolkit, check out AI for Writers from Trust Insights:
https://academy.trustinsights.ai/courses/ai-for-writers
Did you roll your eyes? I sure did.
Now, how many AI slop tells did you spot?
There were plenty. Let’s x-ray it with one of the checklists in the new AI for Writers course from Trust Insights:
If you’re a writer, you’ve probably noticed something changing fast:
(opener states no fact — R2)
AI isn’t replacing the need for great writing.
It’s changing how great writers work.
(negative parallelism — R1: “not X. It’s Y.” split across two one-sentence paragraphs for rhythm)
The opportunity isn’t to hand your writing over to AI and hope for the best. It’s to learn how to use AI as a thinking partner, research assistant, editor, brainstorming companion, and productivity tool—while keeping your voice, judgment, and creativity firmly in the driver’s seat.
(negative parallelism again — R1: second instance of the same “isn’t X. It’s Y.” device; the five-item list itself is a real enumeration, not a tell — see R19 below for the recurring pattern)
That’s the idea behind AI for Writers, a course from Trust Insights.
(no tell — plain scene-setting, names the actual course and company)
It’s designed for writers who want practical ways to incorporate AI into their workflow—not just another collection of generic “prompt engineering” tips.
(negative parallelism — R1: clipped tailing negation, “not just another collection of... tips”)
Because knowing how to ask AI to “write me a blog post” isn’t the same as knowing how to use AI well.
(no tell — a real distinction, not a rhythm device; sentence-initial “Because” is a human-voice marker, not a fault)
The real advantage comes from understanding:
(section preview — R4: announces the list before delivering it)
→ Where AI can genuinely accelerate your writing process
→ How to develop better ideas and stronger drafts
→ How to use AI for research without surrendering your critical thinking
→ How to edit, refine, and improve your work with AI
→ How to maintain your unique voice and perspective
→ How to build an AI-assisted workflow that actually saves time
(mid-essay bullet injection — S10: the argument breaks into a list where prose would carry the reasoning. Separately, isocolon — R8: the same “How to...” opener-connective-payoff template recurs 5 times, well past R8’s 2+ trigger. Two distinct faults on one span: S10 penalizes the bullets existing at all, R8 penalizes the uniformity inside them.)
Whether you’re a content marketer, copywriter, journalist, author, communications professional, or simply someone who writes as part of your job, these skills are becoming increasingly valuable.
(no tell on the list itself — real named professions, not a false range; the closing clause is vague and unsupported, see T1 below)
The writers who thrive in an AI-powered world won’t necessarily be the ones who use AI the most.
They’ll be the ones who know when, where, and how to use it well.
(negative parallelism — R1: third instance of the same device. Not also flagging R12 here — this pair sits inside the sales close, and R12’s own exemption for “a direct, concrete call-to-action in a lead-magnet or sales close” covers it; R1/R19 already carry this finding.)
If you’re ready to make AI a useful part of your writing toolkit, check out AI for Writers from Trust Insights:
(no tell — direct CTA, house style, same R3/R12 exemption)
All these diagnostics tell us what ChatGPT did, and specifically what it overuses (negative parallelism most of all). This is the sort of AI slop that drives us all nuts, because it’s got such a mind-numbing cadence.
In the new course, I teach you what all the names are of these phenomena, why AI does what it does, how to prevent it, and how to use AI to make any writing better by helping you do better research, better ideation, and provide AI with dozens of concrete guardrails. You’ll also get tools that work in any AI system to fingerprint your unique human writing characteristics, then provide that fingerprint to AI to tell it how to write like you in deterministic, measurable ways.
The course is available now for USD 397:
https://academy.trustinsights.ai/courses/ai-for-writers
Thanks for taking a look, and I’ll see you on Sunday for the regular newsletter.
Chris