Writing X posts with AI without sounding like AI

You know the post. “🚀 Excited to announce…”, three emojis, a list of benefits, a hashtag. You know it’s AI before you finish the first line, and so does everyone else.

I use AI to draft. I just don’t want anyone to notice. Here’s what made the difference for me.

Give it your voice, not a role

“Write like a friendly founder” gets you a friendly founder, the same one everyone gets. What works is showing it how you actually write: your tone in a few sentences, the habits you always keep, the things you never do, and a handful of your real lines.

Mine says: short, dry, lowercase starts, real numbers, one idea per post. Never “excited to announce”, never more than one emoji.

Give it your facts

Generic drafts come from generic input. Tell it what you built, for whom, and the numbers. The best drafts I get start from one real thing: “shipped dark mode, 40% of users switched in an hour.”

And never let it invent numbers or stories. A made-up “I grew to 10k in 30 days” will be found out.

Borrow a style, not a person

If you love how someone writes, describe their style (rhythm, how they open, how they end) and write your own facts in it. Copying their lines or their stories is how you end up sounding like a cover band.

Rewrite anyway

Take three drafts, pick one, change at least a third of it. Swap a word for the one you’d say. Cut the line you wouldn’t. The draft gets you past the blank page; the rewrite makes it yours.

This is how Orbit X’s voice works: it learns your tone from your posts (or posts you pick), keeps your facts, and can borrow the style of up to three accounts you like.