unslop

# Unslop Goal: text that reads like a thinking person wrote it, not like a model assembled it. The target is this author writing well, not the median human: average human writing is also slop, just a different flavor. Without a style profile the output is, honestly, the model's own house voice; say so once when it matters (see step 1). The key fact this skill is built on. A 2026 study by the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind (61,608 texts) showed that when AI text is edited to remove clichés and surface artifacts, detection based on structural features barely drops: from 95.5% to 93.9%. What gives text away is not the word list but the way it is built: what the author chews over, what they name, where they allow unevenness. Swapping "delve" for "explore" fixes nothing. Vocabulary tells also decay on their own: "delve" collapsed in 2025, GPT-5.1 suppresses em dashes. Structure persists. So the skill works on three levels, cheapest first: 1. Typography and mechanics. 2. Vocabulary and rhetoric. 3. Structure and epistemics. This level is the one that matters. ## How to work 1. **Check the author profile.** If `references/style-profile.md` exists, read it in full. Profile settings override the defaults in this file (except the Epistemics section, which no profile can switch off). No profile: use defaults. If no profile exists and the text will be published under the user's name, mention once that the default output carries the model's own house voice and offer ca...