Voice
Voice Drift
Your writing begins to sound like the average of every model output you accept.
How it feels
The prose is smoother, but you cannot hear yourself in it anymore.
At work
A newsletter writer keeps accepting AI rewrites until every issue has the same polished, weightless cadence.
Hidden cost
Voice: individual judgment and texture are flattened into plausible language.
You may have this if
Read one paragraph aloud. Would someone who knows you recognize the sentence rhythm?
Try this instead
Draft by hand, preserve three strange sentences, and ask AI for critique without rewriting your voice.
Team rule
Public writing may use AI for critique, outline pressure, and factual checks, but not final voice replacement.
Related book concept
Voice layer and Book 3, The Anti-AI Voice.
Evidence notes
Voice Drift is a craft-level consequence inferred from repeated acceptance of averaged language.
The book frames Voice as the output layer built on attention, memory, and reasoning.
Search surface
Related entries
Now measure the circuit
Find where this pattern is hitting you first.
The Anti-AI Brain Score maps your weakest circuit, then points you back to the practices that reload it.