Why AI Writing Still Reads Like Slop — Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI

Louis-François Bouchard of Towards AI breaks down what makes AI writing feel like slop: overused words, vague generalities, saying nothing, repetition, hallucination and a voice that sounds like everyone at once. He then shows how his team built a benchmark to measure whether a model can write a video script in his own voice: 10 scripts, 5 drafts per model, 4 LLM judges, nine scoring metrics and 1,000 human A/B checks. He shares what it cost, why judges favor their own model family, and practical tips for writing with AI: very long prompts full of examples, one review pass from a strong model,