AI writing repeats in syntax patterns and sentence structures. Its redundancy and robotic AI writing patterns make it unsuitable for publishing on platforms where quality content is required. Students, writers, professionals, marketers—all use AI tools to some extent. But that leaves them with robotic content that gets flagged as AI-written.
Robotic content comes with engagement issues as well. It feels repetitive to read. Readers can also feel like the content isn’t authentic because it’s most likely a production of AI tools and not written by human writers. It’s true that AI content isn’t authentic at all because these tools are trained on existing human text and they base everything off their training data or the information on the web.
Their writing pattern is repetitive for the same reason; because they learn common writing patterns that occur in human writing and repeat them throughout the content.
This means AI tools can’t produce new ideas and don’t have a diverse and natural writing style unlike humans. So, does that mean AI content is completely useless for publishing? That’s not the case. AI content is still useful. It just needs to sound human first.
In this article, we’ll discuss how to make AI writing human using 10 techniques that are practical and work. Let’s dive in.
1. Remove Common AI Words
Common AI words refer to specific terms that AI models use frequently. These specific words are so common in AI writing that AI detection tools look for them when evaluating how AI-written a piece of text sounds. If they occur in the text, it gets flagged by a higher AI detection score. The more of these terms are present in the text, the more the AI detection gets.
These words also make the content feel AI-written to readers. This is because AI content is oft-published. It’s everywhere online—social media, blog posts, online stores, etcetera—and people have really gotten used to reading it. That’s why they’ve become well-familiar with AI-written text and its common patterns, including these words. Some examples of these AI common AI terms include words like “rhythm” and “truly.”
You need to remove these words and expressions if you want to humanize the content. Here’s how:
Read the content.
Find and highlight common AI words and expressions.
Search for synonyms to replace the words.
Rewrite the expressions/phrases to remove them but keep the meaning intact.
Make sure such terms are scarce in the content, like 1-2 max per 1000 words.
2. Remove Generic AI Phrases
Common AI expressions aren’t only limited to words. AI tools overuse some phrasal expressions that are now considered to be robotic. You can find these cliche phrases in almost every paragraph of the text which sound unnatural and repetitive. These quickly give away the text’s origin to both AI detectors and human readers.
Examples of generic and cliche AI phrases include:
“It’s not just about… it’s about…”
“Whether you’re such… or such…”
You need to get rid of these expressions from the AI content to make it feel human-written. Replace them with natural wording and sentences and they’ll sound more natural as well.
3. Simplify the Language
Simplifying the language can also help make AI text feel more human-written.
AI tools tend to use flowery language. They like using fancy words for every possibility. For example, they will say “reduce,” “mitigate,” or “negatively impact” instead of simply saying “decrease.” They do this throughout the content in which they use overly fancy terms for everything they talk about when simpler alternatives are available that are easier to understand and more accessible to the audience.
Human writing, on the other hand, is simpler and more accessible to the audience. Human writers use simpler words to describe things in general, like “improve” instead of “enhance.” The other words are also used, but not as frequently and as specifically as AI does, which is why replacing and using simpler synonyms in their place can help humanize the content.
The process is also simple:
Read the content
Identify fancy or overly-specific terms
Replace them with simpler words
4. Remove Stacked Phrases
Stacked phrases are also common in AI writing and make up for one of its strongest writing patterns. These phrases are words or expressions that AI tools use together when only one of them is sufficient for the meaning. For example, an AI chatbot like ChatGPT would say ”Magnet A attracts and pulls magnet B” when it could simply say “Magnet A attracts magnet B.”
If you read AI content carefully, you’d realize that this happens frequently in AI content. In fact, it might occur in every other or even every single paragraph, which makes it a strong AI pattern to get rid of.
Find these stacked phrases in the AI content to remove them. It’s usually as simple as erasing one of the phrases but you can also rewrite the sentence to add variation.
5. Vary Sentences
Sentences have a rigid and uniform structure in AI text. This specific pattern isn’t very notable but it contributes to the text’s roboticness a lot more than you might think.
AI detectors are trained to detect AI-written content by looking at certain AI patterns common in AI-writing. And one of the patterns that cause a significant amount of detection is the text’s burstiness, which measures how surprising is its sentence structure.
In comparison to human content, generally speaking, AI content is very low in burstiness because it uses balanced sentence structure, which leads to both detection and a robotic feeling when you read the content, whereas human writing has higher burstiness due to more variation in sentence structure.
That’s why it’s essential to vary the sentence structure of your AI content to make it feel human-written. You have a couple of ways to do this, including:
Change sentence voice
Change sentence clause order
Swap parts of speech
6. Vary Sentence Length
Sentence length also influences the feel of your text. AI-written text uses balanced sentences of medium length. The length of these sentences stays consistent throughout the text with very little change.
This consistency in sentence length decreases the text’s burstiness, which increases its predictability to AI detectors as well as human readers. It also causes the text to feel rigid and boring. Removing this pattern requires altering sentences to change their length. You need to vary between both short and lengthy sentences. Here’s how you can do it:
Split sentences to make smaller ones
Combine some sentences to make lengthier ones
Add content to the text to make some sentences longer
Remove content, such as words or phrases, from sentences to make them smaller
A text with more varied sentences feels much more natural and human-written.
7. Adjust the Tone
The content’s tone makes a difference in its feel. AI tools use a generic, neutral, and formal tone which helps it remain objective in the content to prevent bias and making a strong subjective opinion.
AI detectors evaluate the tone and flag the content if it sounds AI-like. The content also feels mundane and too plain to read because it lacks a personality. The word choice and phrasing that AI tools use also make it more apparent to readers that it’s AI-written. But adjusting the tone and making it less neutral can resolve this issue. Here’s how you can do it:
Change the text’s word choice to match the tone you want to change it to.
Switch between active and passive voices depending on your preferred voice.
Use synonyms and phrasing that match the tone.
Alter the sentence length according to the tone. Go from shorter sentences for a more direct and punchy tone or longer sentences for a more relaxed tone.
8. Write in Active Voice
Passive voice sentences are the “by” sentences, such as “The book was purchased by Kirby.” AI content prioritizes these passive voice sentences.
Majority of the sentences in AI content use passive voice while only a handful use active voice. This helps make the content less direct and also helps improve its flow. But too much passive voice is considered a weak writing practice because it’s not as impactful as active voice and doesn’t connect with readers on the same level.
But beside that, passive voice is also an AI pattern that AI detectors look for. Increasing the ratio of passive voice sentences will likely increase the text’s AI detection score, whereas decreasing it can help humanize the content.
Removing this pattern is pretty straightforward. Just rewrite the passive voice sentences into active voice. Here’s a simple workflow:
Read the AI content from start
Identify passive voice sentences—look for sentences worded using “by” phrase
Rewrite the passive voice sentences into active voice
How to change passive voice into active voice?
In passive voice, the receiver of the action is the subject. It becomes the object in active voice. The “doer” of the action in passive voice is the agent that becomes the subject in active voice.
Change a passive voice sentence to active voice by identifying the "doer" of the action and making it the subject and bringing it in the beginning. Move the receiver of action to the end and make it the object. Adjust the verb as required. For example, "The book was borrowed by Joan" becomes "Joan borrowed the book."
9. Add Emotional Depth
Emotional depth is another lacking quality in AI writing. A lack of emotional depth can influence how AI-like it feels to readers, and it can also have a small impact on the content’s AI detection score because.
Do note that adding emotional depth in content is not like the other humanizing techniques that can help humanize to a great extent. It only usually makes a small difference by diluting the AI content’s wording, because AI detection tools focus on text-based patterns only. They don’t know or feel when the content is “emotional” or the other way around. So, even if you add some emotional terms here and there, detection tools can still detect the broader AI-like structure and the buildup of AI patterns around to flag your content.
That’s why you need to use emotional depth subtly as a supplementary technique with other techniques. And don’t try too hard to make your content feel emotional by introducing fragmented and too many short sentences. That’ll degrade the content’s quality and make it unsuitable for publishing.
Use emotional phrases and terms to charge the content with emotions. You can also use subtle humor and jokes.
10. Use a Text Humanizer
Another way you can humanize AI content is by using an AI text humanizer tool like HumanizeAIText.co. It uses humanizing techniques to rewrite your AI-written content and make it sound more human-written. It focuses on making the text natural to read with as little AI patterns as possible.
HumanizeAIText.co works by analyzing your input text. It looks at its structure and wording to check how AI-written it appears. It also scans your text for key words and phrases to understand its meaning. Then, it rewrites the text using various humanizing techniques, including swapping words with more natural synonyms, changing sentence structure, and voice.
How to use HumanizeAIText.co?
Using HumanizeAIText takes only a few steps and even fewer minutes. Here’ s how:
Copy and paste your text into the tool
Click the “Humanize” button at the bottom
Copy the output text
The text you input will become human-written in a matter of seconds.
Conclusion
Making AI writing sound human requires rigorous rewriting. You can do this by using humanizing techniques that help make the text less AI-like and more human-like, including:
Remove common AI words
Remove generic AI phrases
Simplify the language
Remove stacked phrases
Vary sentence structure
Vary sentence length
Adjust the tone
Write in active voice
Add emotional depth
Use a text humanizer
These are all the techniques you need to humanize AI-written content and reduce its 100% detection score to 0%.
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