Practical Solutions to Make Your AI Writing Sound Human

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It wasn’t long after ChatGPT’s release date that creators jumped on social media suggesting you and me to take advantage of AI to enhance our career with minimal effort.

The advice often goes something along the lines of: “ask the AI to write an article on X, post it on your company website or on LinkedIn, so you can sell yourself as a thought leader!”

Sounds great, but the problem is that most AI writing sounds generic, flat, and frankly, quite boring.

Dead Giveaways of AI Writing

Several articles have been coming out describing the dead giveaways that something was written using AI.

For example, Jodie Cook at Forbes lists the following:

• Lengthy introductions
• Ethical considerations to not offend anyone
• Lack of personal stories
• Cliché, filler phrases (i.e., “In today’s fast-paced digital world…”)
• Signature structure (ChatGPT writes articles in 5-6 sections)

There’s also been studies showing how specific words like “delve” have been used exponentially more since the release of generative AI.

How to Humanize AI Writing?

Co-create with AI

Many of the pros suggest writing content by using several AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Compose AI.?

For this blog’s purpose, let’s say you are writing an article on how AI writing assistance helps social media managers.?

• Start off with the same prompt on ChatGPT and Claude. For example, “Give me a bulleted list describing the ways AI can help social media managers.”
• Then, with their respective answers, ask them to expand on each bullet point.
• Keep talking to the AI. Ask it questions and add more details of what you are looking for to extrapolate the most information and tailor it to your needs.
• As a final step, turn to a tool like Compose AI to make sure that your notes are clear and easily digestible.?

Treat this exercise like you would dialoguing with a coworker. This is an excellent way to weed out unoriginal ideas and avoid skip the cliché content.?

Get help from personalized AI writing assistance

There are several AI writing detectors on the internet you can use for free.?

Whether you used generative AI or not, I highly encourage you to run your writing through a detector to figure out if there are parts of your writing that sound robotic.?

You can then use personalized AI writing assistance like Compose AI to quickly rephrase that writing or change the tone of voice.?

Use more contractions

Many technical and corporate terms prioritize complex acronyms and sales-centered language over the conversational everyday language. This leads to the possibility of your writing being mistaken for AI.

A simple fix is using more contractions in your content.

Integrate colloquial language?

Colloquial language is informal speech that is used in everyday conversation among friends and family.

The correct use of colloquial language in professional writing relies heavily on our contextual intelligence. As smart as AI is right now, the nuances of human communication aren't always spot on, so using colloquial language strategically is helpful when proving the humanness in your writing.

A note on AI writing

Remember that AI writing assistance is a tool, not a replacement. The human element in your work cannot be substituted by technology, only enhanced.?

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