Sometimes, I sit down to write and realize I’m not actually writing anymore. I’m performing. Not for readers, not even for myself, but for ZeroGPT. 

Instead of letting my thoughts flow, I catch myself pausing mid-sentence, wondering if a line sounds "too polished" or "too coherent". I constantly ask myself whether an AI would write this, or if it sounds like something a tired human at 12:14 AM would type while overthinking everything. 

The irony is that I am the human. These are my words. And yet I still find myself refreshing a detector like it has moral authority over my keyboard. 

So instead of free writing, I end up writing defensively. I edit not for clarity, but for plausibility. I second-guess sentences that actually sound like me. Sometimes I even leave small typos on purpose, just to feel more “real” and to see the "0% You Text is Human Written" from ZeroGPT, which is honestly a strange thing to admit. 

Writing used to be the one place where I didn’t need permission. Now, somehow, I’m checking whether my own thoughts pass a machine’s vibe check. 

Maybe that’s the real plot twist here. Not AI replacing writers, but writers slowly outsourcing their confidence to detection tools. 

So am I writing freely, or am I writing against ZeroGPT? I’m still not sure. But if this post gets flagged as AI, then congratulations to the algorithm. You’ve officially outed a human who thinks too much. 

(lwk a rant while writing my reflection post #2 for my business ethics class this MBA term.)

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