I spent months trying to get an AI to write like me, but it kept sounding wrong.

I was feeding it my old forum posts from 2018, but the tone was always flat. The thing that tipped me off was my wife reading one and asking, 'Did you have a stroke?' She said it had my words but none of my usual energy. What's the real trick for making an AI copy a personal writing style without sounding like a robot?

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the_jana26d ago

Forget the polished stuff... feed it your drunk texts to the group chat, that rant about the neighbor's dog, even your grocery list with "ice cream x3" circled. The AI needs to see you forgetting commas, using all caps for dumb excitement, typing "lol" when nothing's funny. That's where the actual voice hides, in the garbage posts you'd never save on purpose.

the_tyler26d ago

Your wife's comment is spot on, that's the exact problem. The AI gets the dictionary but misses the music. I found you have to feed it your angry posts, your tired posts, the really dumb jokes. It needs the messy stuff, not just the clean examples.

wade87126d ago

Tbh the messy stuff helps but it's still missing the human glue. @the_tyler is right about needing the music, but maybe the AI just can't catch the vibe of a real person thinking out loud.