AI is teaching us to speak like bots and its a problem

Immediately, after a keynote speaker I was coaching for a large conference finished her rehearsal I pulled her aside. “How much of your script was written by AI?” I asked. She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and hesitantly said, “Most of it.” I delicately shared with her that I could hear it. She started several sentences with phrases like: “Here’s the thing,” “The truth is,” and the word “Unlock!” She sounded like a bot and not like a human, and, if I could hear it, I was certain the audience would too.  Around the same time, a speechwriter I work with told me her client kept barking orders at her as if she was speaking to her AI assistant. “Delete that.” “Move that. No, not that.” “Replace this phrase.” Her client was an early AI adopter who was used to dictating edits to an LLM and now, she was treating the speechwriter the same way. I’m a public speaking and executive communication coach and work wi