Unlock the Secret to Writing Human-Like Content That AI Can’t Replicate—Without Losing Quality

The rise of AI has left all of us, writers and readers alike, with a lot to bitch about.

Most of the complaints I’ve seen from writers have been directed at unscrupulous folk who churn out several AI “articles” or “books” a day, chasing a few cents at the expense of serious writers, who end up buried in the avalanche of slop.

Another big complaint I’ve run across is from readers who can’t find good stories anymore because they’re all just generic BS from AI scammers. The more artificial “writing” takes over the internet, the less readers are able to access real writing.

While these issues are valid, I have another emerging pet peeve to tack onto them: human writers are changing the way that they write in order to distinguish themselves from AI.

Of course, this is natural. Nobody wants to get accused of using AI to generate their articles when they wrote them on their own. However, the way that people are trying to avoid seeming too artificial is what annoys me. Instead of injecting their humanity into their articles, too many writers are taking what I consider the easy way out.

They’re leaving in typos. They’re misspelling words and making comma errors deliberately. Perhaps worst of all, there is a trend going around where people just randomly decide never to capitalize any word in any essay ever.

This particular one gets me about ready to pull my hair out and ensures I scroll away from a piece, even if I had previously been interested in reading it. Don’t want to use caps in your texts? Fine. But refusing to use them in an article screams “amateur” and “uneducated.”

The problem with all of these methods is not only that they may fail to actually prove you didn’t use AI (I mean really, how hard is it to pop a few typos into a generated article?) but also that they tank the quality of your writing, sometimes to the point that it drives readers away even if you’ve successfully signalled that you didn’t use AI.

Whether these sorts of tricks work at making you seem human, they also make you seem like you don’t know what you’re doing. Nobody wants to…