Why AI writing is so exhausting

I rage-deleted Claude from my phone last week. I had to, to save the phone. The tics, man. I would open the app, ask a question, see "earns its keep" or "the honest answer" and have to suppress the urge to shatter the phone on the ground. Deep breaths.I'm getting to the point where if I start to even get the sense that what I'm reading is AI-generated, I just... close the tab.The problem isn't the tics, though the tics are a problem. The best description I've read of what feels "off" to me about AI writing comes from "Honey, We Bought an AI Story," a post by Bona Books about how they determined that two stories in a short story collection they were putting together appear to have been generated, rather than written.The closer we examined that first draft, the more the story’s centre seemed absent. The protagonist was active, but lacked interiority. The worldbuilding had colourful details that somehow failed to build consistently. Certain hallmark sentences recurred over and over (“Not…