“I test generative models for a living, so I spend most of my day looking for the tells that separate real reasoning from a polished paste job. The copy-paste candidates usually surface fast in an interview: ask them one layer deeper and the answer goes fuzzy. I’d rather pass on a smooth AI answer than miss the signal of someone who actually thought it through.”

“I ran Sudowrite once and got ten chapters from seven sentences; it felt like writing, but none of it was me. The copy-paste stuff is usually that easy to spot: it has no scar tissue, no odd choice, no point of view. What I look for is whether the person made the AI work for them, or just took the first draft it offered.”

“I’ve hired copywriters who sent me stuff so polished it felt like a bot wrote it, and sometimes it did. The ones I actually paid were messier, had a weird metaphor, or showed me the ugly research notes behind the draft. AI can’t fake having a point of view, so I look for the scar tissue.”

“I had a copywriting applicant submit a Google Form response that was so obviously AI-generated I could tell in seconds, and I threw it out. The ones who get hired now are the ones who use AI to produce work, then layer on research, judgment, and a real hook that only a human obsessed with the avatar would catch.”

“I test generative models for a living, so I spend most of my day looking for the tells that separate real reasoning from a polished paste job. The copy-paste candidates usually surface fast in an interview: ask them one layer deeper and the answer goes fuzzy. I’d rather pass on a smooth AI answer than miss the signal of someone who actually thought it through.”

“I ran Sudowrite once and got ten chapters from seven sentences; it felt like writing, but none of it was me. The copy-paste stuff is usually that easy to spot: it has no scar tissue, no odd choice, no point of view. What I look for is whether the person made the AI work for them, or just took the first draft it offered.”

“I’ve hired copywriters who sent me stuff so polished it felt like a bot wrote it, and sometimes it did. The ones I actually paid were messier, had a weird metaphor, or showed me the ugly research notes behind the draft. AI can’t fake having a point of view, so I look for the scar tissue.”

“I had a copywriting applicant submit a Google Form response that was so obviously AI-generated I could tell in seconds, and I threw it out. The ones who get hired now are the ones who use AI to produce work, then layer on research, judgment, and a real hook that only a human obsessed with the avatar would catch.”