Your Voice vs AI

Your personal writing twin is finally here

December 26, 2025

ChatGPT might be hurting your personal brand if you rely on it for creative writing. That polished, robotic tone now signals “AI-written” at a glance, and audiences are starting to reject it.

A newsletter creator with 200,000+ subscribers says they’ve ditched ChatGPT for a Claude workflow. The problem isn’t using AI; it’s the “AI touch” that strips away quirks, specificity, and point of view.

A LinkedIn creator’s solution isn’t a better prompt—it’s better architecture. With the right model plus the right context setup, they argue you can keep your voice while still writing faster.

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The Architecture of Authenticity
The core move is shifting from “zero-shot” prompting (no context) to a persistent environment that knows your history. They call out Claude Opus 4.5 paired with Extended Thinking. Extended Thinking gives the model room to plan before drafting, closer to how humans outline.

When you combine that reasoning with a curated library of your own work, the AI stops guessing your voice and starts emulating your patterns. Your best past writing becomes the reference for new drafts. The dynamic shifts from “AI as writer” to “AI as mimic.”

Projects: Building Your Digital Brain
The first pillar is Claude’s Projects feature. Instead of starting from scratch each chat, you upload your “favorite texts” as a standing reference. The recommendation: add your best newsletters, articles, and posts so the AI prioritizes your style over the internet’s average.

Treat it like onboarding a junior copywriter. You’d hand them examples and say, “This is how we talk.” Done well, this keeps your opinion and cadence intact.

The “Style” Feature Unlock
The second pillar is the interface’s style-transfer preset. Instead of re-explaining tone every session (“be witty, use short sentences”), you save a custom style once using a writing example or a short instruction. The path they share: “+” → “Use style” → “Create custom style.”

Projects supply the raw material; Style locks in the tone. Together, they reduce the need to edit out “robot voice” and let you focus on substance.

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Opinion Over Automation
Their main takeaway is philosophical: people don’t care that you used AI; they care if the content lacks soul. “We want your opinion, with your own words.” The “AI touch” frustrates readers because it hedges, summarizes, and plays neutral.

This workflow is built to put opinion back in. If the model is mimicking a real human voice, bold claims and personal anecdotes land properly. The goal isn’t hiding the tool—it’s making the output indistinguishable from your organic writing.

Nuances and Setup Friction
This system requires upfront work. You must curate strong “favorite texts” for Projects, because the AI will mimic whatever you feed it. Upload mediocre writing and you’ll get mediocre output.

Access to Opus 4.5 and Extended Thinking may require a paid subscription, so this level of personalization can sit behind a paywall. For anyone writing at scale, the time saved cutting “robot voice” may justify the cost.

This post is a reminder that tools are only as good as the structure you build around them. If you want to stop sounding like a machine, you have to teach the machine to sound like you.

The original creator also shared a full video breakdown of this workflow. I highly recommend taking a look at the source post to see the interface in action.

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