Website Copy Now Needs an 'AI Flavor' Checkup

I used to think "AI flavor" was just netizens being stubborn, but now detection tools are live. Products like SiteTell on Show HN are interesting. They claim to crawl every page, flag words and sentence structures that sound like generic AI copy, and provide scores, evidence, and rule-based rewrites.

The key takeaway from this news is that content distribution entry points have shifted. Old SEO tools looked at keywords and indexing; now users might ask models first, and models recommend pages. If a page is full of fluff like "in today's digital landscape," it’s not just ugly—it might signal a lack of verifiable information. I’ve been testing sites with search agents lately; pages actually cited often have specific scenarios, numbers, and constraints. Pretty parallelism doesn’t help.

However, I suspect these detectors could slide into new mysticism. If rules only catch a few high-frequency words, everyone will learn to bypass them, resulting in hollow shells. What’s more valuable is whether the tool can explain why something sounds like AI—is it missing subjects, lacking evidence, or over-generalized to the point of having no business info? Rewriting is fine, but don’t wash away the author’s voice.

So if these tools only give a score, their value is limited. Only when they expose the judgment criteria are they worth using.

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