Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings

What I am talking about is the sort of neutral non-formal British default writing that any of us, or indeed people on the island of Ireland would feel was likely to have come from a British writer.

By neutral, non-formal, I mean the general purpose writing that you most want in a mixed business/consumer, mixed age group setting. The kind of thing you'd most want an LLM to be able to do.

I guess I mean BBC/ITV/Channel 4 news article writing, maybe (rather than any particular newspaper since they end up with a house style, though The Guardian is closest to it, and may through its non-London roots have influenced the softening of a then formal BBC/broadsheet style). The TV broadcasters have evolved a kind of “generic British” writing that won’t annoy people too much regionally.

FWIW, Gemma 4’s writing comes across closest to this. I think it would pass a lot of the time. (I think this might be DeepMind heritage having an impact)

OpenAI and Anthropic products really do not; they jangle the nerves even when they are encouraged to write in those styles, though it occurs to me that I have never tried Channel 4 News or The Guardian as style cues.

At best what you tend to get is what feels like it still has certain American cadences and rhythms with word or phrase swaps. Again, really hard to nail down exactly why. But it tends to stick out.