I’ve been fed up with writing editing systems for days.
I’m not sick of creative work, but of these AI editors.
The most frustrating thing is the “Pro…” app—it’s called “Pro,” but it’s dumb. I wonder if other writers and journalists have been nitpicked by it like me? After editing one part, it says it’s perfect, but that perfection affects another part, and that other part needs fixing. It’s like crooked teeth. Fixing it over and over again… ugh…
It warns about Unusual Dialogue Tags 50%; it says to add “said” and “asked,” but when I add them, it throws another Dialogue Tags 50% error…
“Stick to ‘said’ and ‘asked’ instead of other dialogue tags.” Haha. Kill me.
What’s going on? So, what now? Sorry, my IQ is too low for you, dear “Pro...”
It encouraged: “Hey, authors, you should publish if you score above 80 points!”
Okay, I passed that threshold. But the final step was the most frustrating.
When I put it into apps like Zero GPT, GPTZero, Scribbr, and Turnitin… to check the AI detector, they would nitpick.
It warned, “Hey, the sentences I underlined in yellow in your story were likely written by AI.”
Oh no, I’m doomed. How frustrating. “That’s 100% my writing!” I thought to myself.
If any sentence was flagged as AI, I had to rewrite it and rewriting it naturally required using an editor again.
That’s it. Who knows when it will end?
The results varied from app to app: 6% AI, 10% AI, and some even 15-20%. On a really lucky day, they’d declare it 90-100% HUMAN. Even less fortunate would be 70-80% HUMAN, depending on how crazy they are.
“Oh, how strange, these apps are so rubbish.”
And so, articles and short stories were put into hibernation. I’m not bothered to fix it anymore.
Many times, after writing an article, I wanted to call my mentor and ask, “Master, why does the AI detector app report that 10-20% of my writing is AI-written, even though I wrote it 100%?”
But unfortunately, my mentor has gone to the high mountains to meditate. Now, the only masters left are the software AIs that catch the errors. Sounds ridiculous, right?
So, my motto is, “I must believe in myself; don’t rely too much on tools. They are not a compass.”
Because machines are inherently imperfect, let alone humans.
So, any literary work or short story that’s distorted, ugly, or a bit off-key—that means it’s truly mine.
Thank you for reading.
Yoshiko Amemiya
December 28, 2025