New Delhi, March 1 -- The landscape of writing today is fraught with the danger that you may end up sounding like AI. Perfect, wordy, quietly certain. But here's the kicker-it's not just a function of style, but of substance as well.

If the sentence above reads AI-generated to you, you're bang on, although it was actually written by a human-albeit one imitating AI, which imitates certain human writing styles on which it was trained, which may dictate how we make up our sentences in the future, and on and on like a series of reflections in a science experiment.

As a professional writer, there are many pitfalls one must avoid. I have a tendency to unconsciously repeat words in the same sentence or adjoining sentences. My editor has often ...