deslop

Remove AI flavor (deslop)

AI-written web fiction often has common problems: too neat, fond of parallelism, empty lyricism, translationese, highbrow word choice but no web-fiction feel. This skill changes it into the feel of a "real web-fiction author."

When to use

• The main text reads "like AI / like an essay / with translationese"
• AI-generated drafts need to be grounded into web fiction
• The writing is too "stiff/formal," lacking the crisp thrill of web fiction

Typical symptoms of AI flavor → fixes

Symptom	Manifestation	Fix
Gratuitous rhetoric ⭐	Metaphors/stacked metaphors that exist for rhetoric's sake and do not help the plot or emotion	For every metaphor ask "does it make readers understand better or feel more thrill?" If not, delete it; for thrilling fiction, prioritize concrete actions over metaphors
References with a large span / mismatched references ⭐	Suddenly quoting classical poems, allusions, academic concepts, or memes unfitting for the character in plain writing; inconsistent register	First define the register and keep it unified throughout; ask "would this narrator say this?" "Is it on the same channel as the whole text?" If mismatched, delete or replace
Parallelism addiction	Three-sentence parallelism for lyricism, "not… but…"	Delete two sentences, keep the most powerful one, or change it into action
Shouting emotions (not showing)	"I feel so heartache" "he felt incomparably angry"	Show it through expression/action/physiological reaction/subtext and let readers feel it themselves (see details in references/show-emotion.md, for specialized fixes use the emotion skill)
Translationese	"This is such a beautiful…" "unbelievable"	Change to colloquial speech: "so beautiful it's unreal" "absurd"
Overly neat / sentences too smooth	Every sentence is about the same length, neat and uniform, too smooth; adjacent paragraphs have similar character counts and line counts	Make sentence lengths uneven (alternate short and long + occasional 50-character long sentence), add ellipses/dashes/line breaks for pauses; break paragraph symmetry (see details in references/sentence-rhythm.md）
Repeated rhetoric/sentence patterns/words	The same metaphor, sentence pattern, or word appears repeatedly	Check the whole text for duplication; delete or replace
Tautology	"He was very angry, he was furious"—saying one meaning twice	Keep the most precise one, preferably change it into action
Abuse of extreme words	Very/extremely/greatly/immeasurably/utterly piled up	Delete ninety percent; let degree come from concrete imagery
Inexplicable declarative sentences / forced elevation	Suddenly inserting empty talk like "life is always full of challenges"	Delete all
Periods used as enumeration commas	"Apple. Banana. Orange."	For items in a list use the enumeration comma "、", commas for pauses, and reserve periods for complete sentences
Decorative symbol addiction	Sprinkling ✦✨◆●★ in the main text/titles as decoration or separators	Delete all; use blank lines or "——" for separators, and use plain text for titles
Ellipsis used incorrectly	Use ... or 。。。	Chinese ellipsis uses "……" (six dots as one punctuation mark)
Dash overused	—— appears repeatedly	Use it very rarely; if a period or comma works, don't use it; at most once per chapter
Square brackets in the main text	Main text uses 【】	Main text does not use 【】 (only exception: system-flow pop-ups)
Corner brackets/Japanese-style quotes	Dialogue uses 「」 or 『』	Simplified Chinese web fiction does not use 「」『』; always change to curly double quotes "", and use curly single quotes '' for nesting
Quotation marks used incorrectly	Using single quotes '' as the main quote for no reason, or using English "" ''	The main quote uses curly double quotes ""; single quotes '' are only for nesting
Overuse of fancy words	Piling up four-character idioms and formal language	Switch to the plain expressions commonly used in web fiction
Over-explaining	Explaining all the character's emotions/motives	Leave blanks; let actions and dialogue speak for themselves
AI transition words	"However" "Meanwhile" "Moreover" "It is worth mentioning that"	Delete them or replace with colloquial connectors
Stiff dialogue	Characters speak like formal writing	Change to colloquial speech that fits the character, with modal particles

Workflow

1. First read the user's text and mark the sentences with the strongest AI flavor
2. Rewrite each spot according to the table above, giving an "original sentence → revised" comparison
3. Adjust the overall rhythm: add fragmented sentences, single-sentence paragraphs, speed up dialogue
4. Keep the plot and payoff unchanged; only change the "feel"

For the complete in-depth checklist (including gratuitous rhetoric, wide-span references, register consistency, show-don't-tell), see references/anti-ai-checklist.md。

Web fiction writing feel

• Short: avoid long, difficult sentences; one sentence, one meaning
• Fast: dialogue and action drive it forward, less narration
• Hard-hitting: hammer out emotions with concrete details, don't pile up adjectives
• Alive: appropriately colloquial, internet-savvy, with modal particles, but don't overdo it
• Consistent：First define the register (plain/ornate/ancient/modern), keep it uniform throughout——a plain, mature style shouldn't randomly cite allusions and weird stuff; consistency of style > a single brilliant sentence

Note

• Removing AI flavor ≠ adding rotten internet memes; overdoing memes also makes the manuscript cheap
• Keep the author's original style; only remove the "machine feel," don't force a style change
• After revising, you can compare with the original to confirm the plot/characters haven't changed

Coordination

• When writing the main text, produce less AI flavor → use expand(already has built-in requirements to avoid AI tone).
• Before revising, if you want to firstquantify and locate"how strong the AI flavor is, which sentences lose points" → use aidetect(AI flavor index + eight indicators + location checklist, see references/ai-detector.md); cutting according to its priority is faster.
• This skill treatssurface(rhetoric/punctuation/symbols/repetition/extreme words). If the surface is cleaned up but it still "feels like AI/like a manual," that'sa deeper lack of human flavor——Use human skill to add a sense of loss of control (irrational behavior/incomplete emotion/unclosed loop/personal bias), see references/human-texture.md。