Most AI content sounds the same. Here's why — and the fix that actually works.

I spent weeks editing AI drafts for 20 minutes each just to make them sound like me. Then I realized the problem wasn't the output. It was that the tool had never read anything I'd written.

Generic AI tools don't know:

Whether you write long and dense or short and punchy

Whether you use humor or stay completely dry

Whether you lead with data or lead with a story

What your actual opinions are on anything in your niche

So they produce the median. Technically correct, completely forgettable, impossible to attribute to any specific person.

The fix isn't better prompts

Better prompts help at the margins. But you're still fighting the same underlying problem: the model is generating from a blank slate every time.

The thing that changed my output quality: training on my own archive first.

Feed it 200 of your own posts.…