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I Can’t Unhear the ChatGPT Voice Anymore

I teach writing, so I spend my days reading student essays. Lately, I’ve started spotting something eerie: the telltale “That’s not X, it’s Y” phrasing. Once I noticed it, I couldn’t stop. YouTube video essays, podcast scripts, even casual conversations—everyone suddenly sounds like a ChatGPT draft. I know that sentence structure existed long before AI. I know people use it naturally. But now, every time I hear it, my brain goes: “Ah. Bot.” It’s not anger. Just fatigue. A low-key cringe that hits every time someone writes with em dashes like they’re coding a personality. Or when I catch a paragraph that feels... too symmetrical. I hate that a tool I once loved is bleeding into everything. Even honest voices now feel a little prepackaged. It’s not the AI’s fault. But I miss when people sounded a little less optimized. #TeacherLife #AIOverload #WriterFatigue #DigitalBurnout