Read ten AI-assisted blog posts and they all sound the same. Clean, competent, interchangeable. Now read your old work — the stuff you wrote before AI. It's rougher, sure. But it sounds like someone. It sounds like you.
The homogenization problem
AI is trained on everything, which means it averages everything. Your quirks, your unusual word choices, your distinctive rhythm — AI smooths them all out. It turns your voice into everyone's voice. The result reads well but feels like nothing.
Style is built from mistakes
Every great creative voice is shaped by limitations and accidents. The painter who can't draw hands develops a distinctive style around that limitation. The writer with unusual syntax creates a recognizable voice. AI has no limitations, no accidents, no style. It has patterns.
Finding your way back
If you've been co-creating with AI for months, your own voice might feel weak or uncertain. That's normal. It hasn't disappeared — it's just been quiet. Create something ugly, something imperfect, something that only you would make. That's where your voice lives.