AI is good at the part of writing I hate and bad at the part I care about. It will produce a clean outline, a summary, and three ways to open an email in seconds. It will not tell me what I actually think, and that is the whole job.
So I use it as scaffolding. I give it my notes, take the structure it returns, and then write every sentence myself. The draft is a skeleton. The voice is mine.
A machine can write a newsletter. It cannot have an opinion you are willing to defend in the replies.
Publishing an AI draft unchanged is the fastest way to sound like everyone else. The tools share a rhythm, and readers notice the sameness even if they cannot name it.
Generic openings are the tell. If your email begins with a sentence that could belong to any writer in your niche, cut it and start with the second one. The specific line is always further down.
I speak my first version out loud and let a tool transcribe it. Talking forces a natural rhythm that typing often destroys. Then I shape the transcript by hand and read it once more before it goes out.
The rule I keep is simple. AI can help me find the words faster, but it never gets the last word.
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