Quoting @therealcornpop
- ID
- 27351
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 23 Sep 2026, 2:03 AM
- Fetched
- 23 Sep 2026, 2:56 AM
- Provider
- Simon Willison
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/therealcornpop/
- Source URL
- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 23 Sep 2026, 2:58 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- vibe_codersai_agent_userssaas_founders
What happened
Simon Willison surfaced a TikTok quote from @therealcornpop arguing that AI-written video scripts are obvious not just because of familiar 'AI-isms' (the 'it's not X, it's Y' pattern, rule of three, broken staccato punctuation) but because they lack a definitive personal voice and genuine opinions about the subject matter.
Why it matters
If you use AI to draft content — scripts, blog posts, marketing copy — audiences can already tell, and the tell is not stylistic but substantive: the absence of a strong, opinionated point of view. This means the fix is not better prompting to avoid clichés, but injecting your own actual opinions and voice into the output before publishing.
Discussion angle
Where's the line between using AI as a drafting tool and producing content that is recognizably hollow — and does editing for 'opinion density' become a practical step in any AI-assisted content workflow?