The internet is starting to sound unnaturally polished. LinkedIn posts read like corporate templates. Instagram captions feel overly structured. Casual emails carry strangely formal phrasing and excessive em dashes.

This is not just because there is an abundance of machine talk saturating the internet; even humans are starting to learn how to write like machines.

A study by the University of Southern California (USC) revealed that there was a sudden decrease in stylistic diversity in........

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