Serif Fonts Become the Latest Telltale Sign of AI-Generated Content
By
John Semley
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article discusses how AI-generated content is increasingly identifiable through stylistic markers, with serif fonts becoming a telltale sign of AI use. As companies use serif typefaces to project humanity and sophistication in AI-generated text, critics have dubbed this phenomenon "tasteslop." The author examines the broader backlash against AI's omnipresence and the specific visual and grammatical patterns that now signal AI involvement, from em dashes to the "rule of threes" to serif fonts.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledOne of the first casualties, to my dismay, was em dashes—which are a great, and very human form of punctuation, by the way!
There's also the 'rule of threes,' which is meant to scan as rhythmic, but often comes across predictable, hackish, and stale.
Now certain fonts and typefaces—specifically serifs—seem to be defining (and giving away) AI-generated content.
Critics are calling it 'tasteslop.'
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