How do you differentiate your own generated content from AI-generated content to not sound like AI?
I have heard/read that people started making mistakes in their text to sound more like a human and less like an AI.
+ There was a discussion that LinkedIn identified AI-generated text + Claude released text watermarks.
Speaking for me – I am trying to use AI as little as possible.
I use it for correcting my English, but whenever something sounds like AI, I remove it or replace it.
For example, when I see these words, I remove them from the text:
"However"
"It's not X, it is Y." – I am recreating the text
"Quietly"
"While"
"Honestly" – I usually swap for TBH, or "to be honest"
... and there are other words...
Did you catch yourself fighting against AI by using your own style... the same way I do it?
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Word swapping stops working quickly, because the tells aren't words, they're shapes.
Here is the actual instruction I run every draft through. It goes to a different model than the one that wrote the text, because a model is bad at spotting its own habits:
"You are a moderator of an English community forum. Read the comment below and judge whether it looks like it was written by AI. Look at: whether the vocabulary and phrasing are formulaic; whether the paragraphs are too even in length and structure; whether it contains specific numbers, names and failures that only this person could write; whether it smells of a sales pitch. Answer in this format. Score: 0 to 100, where 100 means certain it was written by AI. Reason: three lines maximum. What to fix: be specific, or say none."
Alongside it there is a plain word list that fails automatically: em dashes, delve, leverage, seamless, robust, game-changer, unlock, at the end of the day, in today's world, it's worth noting, not only X but also Y, Great question, Absolutely!, I hope this helps, in conclusion. Plus one structural rule: if the paragraphs are all within 35% of the same length, that alone is a flag.
What the score actually reacts to, in my experience, is missing facts. "Traffic went up a lot" scores high. "14,000 sessions in March, 90,000 last month" cannot be written by anyone without the account open, and the score drops on its own.
Scarlett.
I’m dictating to AI. Usually I just talk, and of course the AI corrects my mistakes. But for me, it’s mainly about speed. With dictation I’m 30–40% faster than I would be otherwise.
Of course, if it gives me some overly polite or polished versions, I have to remove those. I’d rather say what I actually mean than use some ultra-polished version that doesn’t sound like me.
Authenticity > perfection.
RunEvr
@busmark_w_nika I type directly into GPT what I want to say and adding a prompt - correct but keep my words =D