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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Softorino 💻📲
Adding to Hisashi, the one that survives every scrub is length. The draft is always longer than the thought inside it, because the model has no reason to stop and I do. On a page I get a fixed amount of room, so the habit that saves me is cutting until only the thing I meant is left, and whatever survives that is mine by definition.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@yelyzaveta_kibets Do you mean that you are shorten the text?
Softorino 💻📲
@busmark_w_nika Yes, I shorten it. I write the long version first, then delete every line that is not the thing I meant, and what is left usually sounds like me.
@yelyzaveta_kibets Thanks Lisa. Better to cut until what's left is what you meant than to keep a list of words to avoid.
Mine flags evenness rather than length.
Softorino 💻📲
@hisashispace Evenness is the better tell, I think. When every sentence lands at the same length it reads like a metronome, and I never write that way when I am actually working something out.
@yelyzaveta_kibets Metronome is exactly the right word for it!
Honestly, just having your own opinion helps a lot.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@vhim_jana I will rather write with mistakes :D
Sometimes I read it again and go, “nah, I wouldn’t say it like that.”
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@robert_smith52 you would be surprised, but some people started sounding like AI in real life. 🙈
I’m gonna talk differently to a customer, a friend, or some random person online anyway lol.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@edward_moore5 But do we use AI when talking to them? :)
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.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@byalexai Well, but doesn't that correction take the time you previously earned by dictating? So, in the end, will it be annulled? :D
Scarlett.
@busmark_w_nika nope, it's still 20-30% quicker than my typing approach. Because I don't have to edit all the time. And especially WisprFlow learns by previous conversations so it doesn't repeat same mistakes.
RunEvr
@busmark_w_nika I type directly into GPT what I want to say and adding a prompt - correct but keep my words =D
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@adana and it shows you a different version, right? :DDDD
RunEvr
@busmark_w_nika it already knows what I want to see =)
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@yogesh_builds jUsT mAkE aS mAnY mYsTaKeS aS pOsSyBlE. 😂
@busmark_w_nika 😂
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@yogesh_builds From a comment like this it is easy to understand :D
@busmark_w_nika Finally found an AI detector I can trust :)
Fixing my grammar is fine, but if it starts changing how I talk, I change it back.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@ayazakram it changes narrative most of the time so I end up changing the whole text :D
Weirdly, the messy version usually sounds more like me.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@thomas_jack4 I also rather go for unpolished :)
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@joshua_gibson2 also... another word that is overused is "actually" :D so maybe your prompt should contain words that AI should avoid :D