AI writing
How to Make AI Writing Sound Less AI
AI writing often sounds polished.
That is part of the problem.
The grammar is clean, but the writing can feel generic, wordy, and strangely familiar.
Common signs include:
| Sign | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Throat-clearing | “In today’s rapidly evolving…” |
| Empty intensifiers | highly, extremely, significantly |
| Corporate adjectives | robust, innovative, transformative |
| Hedging | “could potentially” |
| Nominalizations | “make an improvement” instead of “improve” |
| Long phrases | “at this point in time” instead of “now” |
| Predictable transitions | moreover, furthermore, additionally |
| Repeated conclusions | the same point, restated |
| Abstract language | concepts with no concrete detail |
| Overexplaining | spelling out the obvious |
| Sameness | sentences that all sound alike |
| A too-polished tone | that no longer sounds like you |
Consider:
It is important to note that implementing these changes can potentially result in significant improvements to the overall user experience.
Edit it to:
These changes could improve the user experience.
Same idea.
Fewer words.
Do not humanize it
Pasting AI writing into another tool and asking it to “sound human” often creates another rewrite.
Edit instead.
Keep the original. Find the problem. Make the smallest change that fixes it.
Before publishing, ask:
- Can I delete the first sentence?
- Can five words become one?
- Are there unnecessary hedges?
- Did AI add or remove facts?
- Does this still sound like me?
The point
Good editing does not disguise AI writing. It removes the clutter that makes writing sound artificial.
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