Tropes.fyi – Name and shame AI writing
Today I come to you on this beautiful Friday with a freshly hardthink-ed solution to a proliferous problem plaguing our world: the loss of original voice. The blanket of blandness slowly suffocating centuries of writing. Or to put it bluntly: AI writing is trash. It is disrespectful to expect ME to read something YOU could not even be bothered to write (or likely even read). The lingering human connection that remained resilient on the internet - through years of SEO optimisation, propaganda bots, ads, regional firewalls, politics, censorship - is now being diluted even further. Many of the…
Tropes.fyi – Name and shame AI writing launched on February 20, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,882 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
The definitive reference for identifying AI writing patterns. Learn to spot the tropes that give away AI-generated text.
“ Despite these challenges, the initiative continues to thrive. ” “ The problem -- and this is the part nobody talks about -- is systemic. ” A dynamic directory of the recurring tropes, tics and structural patterns that give away AI-generated text. For writers, editors, publishers, anyone who reads and anyone who cares . Every trope in the directory is stated as an instruction, and it covers response behaviours as well as prose, so it governs how the model answers you too. Drop it in your skills directory and it loads before the model writes anything. The rage-fueled motivation is on the blog. Lead with the answer, the solution or the change. Do not preface it, do not announce what you are…from tropes.fyi
In the maker’s words, at launch
Today I come to you on this beautiful Friday with a freshly hardthink-ed solution to a proliferous problem plaguing our world: the loss of original voice. The blanket of blandness slowly suffocating centuries of writing. Or to put it bluntly: AI writing is trash. It is disrespectful to expect ME to read something YOU…
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