Miss the typos?

Everything these days reads so well. Sentences flow nicely. The spelling is spot on. The grammar is all correct. It’s all just… right. Or is it?

Instead of spotting typos, I now find myself spotting the telltale footprints of AI. In emails. In posts. In documents. Everywhere. Those ridiculously long dashes. The little graphics it likes to stick next to headings. You’ll soon be seeing them everywhere too now!

We’re surrounded by writing from machines. It never gets tired. Never makes a spelling mistake. Never forgets a full stop. And bit by bit, the little things that once told us a real person was behind the words are starting to disappear.

Now, when I read something, my eyes search for a sign that someone was really there. A sentence that goes a bit wonky. A wrong word that somehow makes more sense than the right one. A message that’s more feeling than form.

Typos used to be annoying. Now they feel like proof. Proof that someone with a busy brain and a full heart typed it out. Proof they were in a rush, or got distracted, or simply couldn’t be bothered to fix it. And that’s something a machine can’t fake.

So yes. It’s strange to miss the typos.

But maybe what we’re really missing is the people behind the words.