With everyone using AI these days, like almost every single damn person on the planet, from regular humans to actual governments, "AI slop" became the trendy slang of 2025 going into 2026. Really popular. Really trending. And honestly pretty funny to watch.
People hating AI. People loving AI. People using it for work, for mental health, for a silly question at 2am. And somewhere in the middle of all that, everyone started complaining about AI-generated work, and worse, trying to make AI less AI. Tons of skill.md files got shared for exactly this reason.
Here's the thing though. Hot news: here's the skill.md that makes AI sound human...
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Nope. Nothing. 😂
The reason it sounds like AI, the reason it is slop, is because you told it "make me a viral post based on xx, make no mistakes," and then didn't check it. Most people don't. People who love skim reading, myself included, will just go "ah yes, post it."
I'm an AI super user. It assists me in almost everything. We're already at the level of 2am existential crisis, where I once told my AI companion I just want to be a fish so I can blup blup all the time. Ha.
So I argue with it. I brainstorm with it. I fact-check with it. My posts and blogs use AI, they do, or you'd be reading way too many typos and a lot more jumping between topics mid-rumble. But the idea is mine. The architecture is mine.
AI Didn't Invent the Traits. It Just Distributed Them.
The new trending post is "how to make AI less AI." And bruh. You cannot.
Em dashes happened before AI. "And that's rare, here's what I'd do instead," and a hundred variations of it, none of that started with a chatbot. Read an actual book and authors have used these structures forever.
Carl Jung was publishing from the early 1900s until his death in 1961. Decades of work, full of the exact punctuation people now call AI vibes. Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces came out in 1949. Buzzwords like "robust" and "leverage" were all over enterprise product management coursework, actual education material, long before anyone accused a chatbot of sounding corporate.
AI didn't invent a single one of these words. It got fed the words that already existed.
One person writing like that is a quirk. Ten million people writing exactly like that in the same week is what makes it feel like a crisis. AI didn't create the sameness. It just gave it a megaphone loud enough that you could finally hear how many people were already thinking, and writing, the same way.
That's the actual panic underneath all the AI slop jokes. Not that AI writes badly. That it revealed how many of us were already writing like everyone else, we just never had the volume to notice.
You Can't Make AI Less AI. That Was Never the Fix.
Just like Da Vinci has his fingerprints in all of his paintings, I have mine in all my designs and code. AI is the same. No matter how much you personalise it, no matter how tight the skill.md is, it still carries factory traits. I've used AI long enough and studied it closely enough to tell you how each platform and model sounds. Grok sounds like Grok. Claude sounds like Claude. GPT sounds like GPT. Even Deepseek has its own tell.
So we don't make AI less AI. AI already is what it is. The part that's supposed to move is the user, thinking and working with it, not trying to sand its edges off.
And for the skill.md itself: it's better to make it your own, with your own rules and your own vibes. If you just downloaded the one with 1 million stars on GitHub? Congrats, you just made another wave of slop. A slightly better dressed one.
The Empty Hand
AI slop was never really about AI.
It's what happens when someone outsources the thinking and then gets mad at the tool for the voice that was never theirs to bring in the first place. The fingerprint isn't the problem. The empty hand is.
The fingerprint isn't the problem. The empty hand is.
I still want to be a fish sometimes. Blup blup, no thoughts, just vibes. But even that 2am spiral had me arguing with my own AI, not just asking it to think for me.
