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Each is researched, sourced and written with AI tools while trying to keep the gremlins out. The irony is deliberate.

• Where did the AI gremlins come from

  A short history of AI slop, a field guide to the gremlins, and my position on using AI to write.

• The gremlins living in AI

  The vocabulary fingerprints, structural habits and punctuation tics that AI cannot suppress, no matter what you put in the prompt.

• The gremlins are eating each other

  What happens when AI models train on AI-produced content. Model collapse, knowledge collapse, the farmed salmon problem.

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• I tried to fool the detector and the detector won

  The process of humanising AI output, what detection tools actually measure, and why degrading the writing to pass is a losing trade.

• The protocol is the point

  Building a writing protocol that keeps the gremlins out. What it catches, what it misses, and why specificity is the only real defence.

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• What the reader already knows

  Your audience is better at spotting AI output than you think. The research on human detection, and what it means for professional credibility.

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