AI has made everything very easy, especially writing. Now, no matter your writing tone, grammar, vocabulary, style, and talent, you will be able to write anything using automation. It has made writing more accessible to people, so anyone can write anything, at any time. However, there’s a catch.
Just because AI has made writing easier, more available, efficient, and fast, doesn’t necessarily mean the written words are of good quality. More importantly, the writing tends to come off as robotic and generally lacks the human touch that illuminates anyone’s writing.
However, there are ways to use AI for writing and still make the output more human. Here are five steps you can use to make your AI writing sound natural and human.
Humanization Starts From Ideation
If you are going to write something, make sure the core concepts come from you. It is very easy to leave the whole task to AI. But the more work AI covers, the more robotic and even problematic your work can become. This is why humanization generally starts with the planning.
Find the sources you are gonna use to write the stuff on your own. Dig deep and find all the right sources of information you will need. Then, feed the information into the Large Language Model you will be using.
The key is to limit its information source to what you want it to use, because that leaves very little space for it to dream something up. This is a very serious issue with AI.
When it can’t find the information it needs from its own database, it will create a plausible lie to fill in. This can lead to numerous issues, including the fact that the information you are adding is made up and not actual facts.
Remove the Stoicness
Once the idea is in place, and you type in the perfect prompt and give it the information you need, you will get your first draft. But we all know that when you ask AI to generate something, the input will come out stoic. It is ironic that even though AI has learned writing based on human writing patterns, but still lacks the warmth that human-written words bring.
This roboticness is inevitable, no matter how much you ask it to write more naturally or more simply. It does the most efficient job, but doesn’t have the capacity to “realize” that the output is a bit rigid and unnatural-sounding.
This is when you start your first edits. Run the output through an AI checker that can tell you which parts of the words sound most robotic and mechanical.
Using this as a guide, you swap out those lines with something that holds the same message but sounds human or heavily edit what is already there.
This is often the most crucial step because it can help make your content sound a lot more human. Try to be as thorough as possible with the edits, because let’s face it: the future of AI and human writing collaboration will mean that you are more of an editor than a writer.
Change Sentence Structure and Length
People don’t write in the same patterns. Even a single person doesn’t write every paragraph in the same way every time. Some sentences are long. And some are just two or three words.
If you closely observe AI writing, you will realize that every few sentences are the same. In fact, you will be surprised to see that even when writing different ideas, they use the same pattern of sentences, and the lengths are also similar and very predictable.
This is why it is crucial to take those sentences and change them up. The key is to break the pattern. Most humans will never write so mechanically. They put in the words as the thoughts come to them, which is why this is a crucial step, especially if you need to escape detection from a checker.
You can use the very same ideas and switch them up. Try writing the way you speak. Break some sentences down, and connect others with conjunctions. This is a great way to make the writing more human.
Enrich the Words With Personal Touches and Credible Information
A writing isn’t human until it has personal anecdotes, “inside” jokes, and lived experience. If the AI has already brought the information you need, you can add a personal example and make the situation more comprehensive for the people reading it.
This always works. People don’t just want information; they want it presented in a way that feels relatable because otherwise it doesn’t quite land the way you want it to.
If AI generates something for you, even if you are the one directing its words, it still doesn’t make you the author. To claim ownership, you must add bits of yourself into it.
So, go through the words, and see where you can add things only you can say. Only then will the writing feel human and naturally give off your voice.
Another crucial aspect you can do to humanize your content is to add credible information. There are some types of writing where you can’t make it too personal.
However, you can still make them more impactful by adding things like quotes by important people or by supporting the claims with actual studies and data. This is a great way to enhance audience trust and help make writing that is technical more human, without making it too personal.
Use a Humanizer Cautiously
Yes, now you can also use AI to humanize automated text; however, you must take that with a grain of salt. Because one of these technologies has been able to truly replicate how humans write.
So, the output from many of these tools comes out messy and nonsensical. This is why it is crucial to understand that you can’t just take the words out of one model and put it to another. Even the output that the humanizer will deliver needs to be edited and worked on.
Remember that AI written can be humanized fast, but you still need to put in some work and effort, or it just won’t work. Because even the paid subscription of the top humanizer has not been able to give the kind of work that can be deemed completely human.
So, you can try using a humanizer early on in the process, and then edit the output to smooth out any issues that may arise.
Final Thoughts
AI has caused a digital transformation in every aspect of a business, but the most defined change is in content. AI-generated content can easily be made human, but you need to understand that you must work on it a bit more.
This means that you may have to edit it heavily, change the sentence structure, add personal touches like your anecdotes or personal experience, or even some actual verified data, so that it helps make the work sound more human and trustworthy.
Remember that unedited AI content will feel stoic and mechanical, and may turn people away from your work. So, try to follow these five steps and publish content that lands right with your audience.
