Lint your AI-assisted prose for tell-tale clichés before publishing

Simon Willison's Weblog·low signal

A LLM cliché highlighter surfaced July 17 flags recurring linguistic tropes in AI-written text — patterns like 'no fluff, no filler' that readers now pattern-match as machine-generated. For anyone shipping AI-assisted writing at volume, this is a cheap final-pass lint: run it over drafts the way you'd run a spell-checker, and treat a high hit rate as a signal to rewrite rather than to swap synonyms.