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"
"Genuinely"
"Actually"
"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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Half my comments on this site come back with a Likely AI tag and I wrote every one of them. What the label reacts to is shape, not vocabulary, so swapping However for TBH buys you nothing. The only thing I've found that shifts it is a fact I couldn't have invented, a number off my own dashboard or a bug I actually shipped and had to explain. Yogesh is right that the cost lands on people who write in a structured way, and I'm not going to start writing worse to pass a detector.
@asadmalik901 and how many comments are "polished" by AI? :)