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"Don’t Let LLMs Write For You" by JustisMills

Published: March 12, 2026

Duration: 5:53

Content note: nothing in this piece is a prank or jumpscare where I smirkingly reveal you've been reading AI prose all along.

It's easy to forget this in roarin’ 2026, but homo sapiens are the original vibers. Long before we adapt our behaviors or formal heuristics, human beings can sniff out something sus. And to most human beings, AI prose is something sus.

If you use AI to write something, people will know. Not everyone, but the people paying attention, who aren’t newcomers or distracted or intoxicated. And most of those people will judge you.

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