The Realness Test: How to Edit AI Content So It Actually Sounds Like You | Part 4 of 5

You can batch your content, set up your prompts, and feel like you've finally got a system. But if you skip the edit, you might be publishing content that sounds like everyone else. In Part 4 of The Aligned AI Method, I'm teaching you the Realness Test: five checkpoints I run on every piece of AI-assisted content to make sure it still sounds like me. Because it's not enough to create fast. It has to sound like you.

In this episode:

• The caption story: what happened when I let AI get too polished with my voice
• Why AI content drifts even when you've done the setup work — and the research name for it
• Four patterns that show up in unedited AI content: the Confidence Hedge, the List Reflex, the Vocabulary Upgrade, and the Missing Story
• The Realness Test: five checkpoints, about ten minutes, every time
• Why owning the close is the most important thing you can do for your content
• What's coming in Part 5: the full system walkthrough plus a published AI expert joining as a guest

The Realness Test — Five Checkpoints:

1. Read it out loud
2. Find the sentence that sounds most like you
3. Fix the vocabulary upgrades
4. Add the specific details
5. Own the close

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Free Realness Test Checklist: [CLICK HERE]
• The Aligned AI Collective: www.marymassey.com/collective-enrollment
• 1:1 Coaching with Mary: Click here to apply
• YouTube walkthrough coming soon — subscribe so you don't miss it