5 ways to humanize your AI content
Human tone, emotion, zero-jargon, native, slang!
Believe me, these tricks are not enough to make your AI-content sound like a human. Chatgpt can give a human touch, emotion, as well as remove jargon if you ask it to do so.
There are very simple and layman things that will make your content look like human-written content, even if it is generated by tools like Chatgpt or Google gemini.
#1. Capitalization
Generative AI tools, especially in the writing domain, are very strict with capitalization rules. These tools believe that there must be perfection in capitalization. They keep the titles in ‘Title Case’, they keep the initials of ‘noun terms’ in the capital, and a lot of other capitalization perfection you can see. Nobody notices that deeply, but it silently gives a clear message that this text is robotic.
Even if you as a human do the same with capitalization and all, your text will look non-human and AI-generated.
Go through any legal papers, white papers, case studies, and similar technical content. Even if it is written, proofread and edited by humans, it looks like robotic content, why? Because the creators have perfectly nailed the capitalization rules.
The post you are reading now has unusual capitalization (if you noticed), it gives you a sense that this post is written by a living human and not a dead machine.
That’s why you need to focus on capitalization as well. Make it natural, as you text your bestie, you don’t care about capitalization. Just do where it is required, don’t do it unnecessarily.
#2. Grammar (especially commas)
Tools are again so strict with the commas. They don’t want to foul anything, they are programmed in such a way. They work upon algorithms and prompts, and never face waves of thoughts like humans have.
In the morning, you (a human) feel fresh, active, agile. At night, you are tired, disturbed or maybe angry too.
But these tools don’t work like this. They are always the same, no matter if there’s Israel-Palestine war going on or if it is Christmas celebrations.
Commas are everywhere in AI content. Don’t use it everywhere. Believe me, we don’t use that many commas when we humans converse. Use less, wherever required only. Give up that ‘oxford comma’ that is everywhere in AI content.
The same things apply to the use of other punctuation marks. You just have to believe that adding the ‘exclamation mark’ (!) doesn’t add any excitement to your content.
#3. Breaking the sentences
Machines are taught in such a way that they have to make every sentence based on a standard word count. You may have seen that Chatgpt and Gemini like tools are never giving you sentence breaks after two or three words. (unless you give a specific prompt to break sentences)
But it is not a very common thing in human written content. We break sentences even after a few words. Sometimes just two words. You will notice such patterns in this write up as well.
#4. Break the pattern
There are patterns that do not align well every time with the reading pattern of the human mind.
Take an example of movies we watch. Some movies start from midway, some start from the end with a storyteller explaining the story. Like in Titanic, the movie starts with the end (conclusion), where Rose narrates the stories. Similarly, all the movies have a different pattern. But these AI-generated content pieces are still working the same way, giving a similar pattern again and again.
You have to break that silly pattern or give some very nice prompts to your tool so that it generates something that looks human, sounds human, and attracts human readers. With unusual patterns, you can entice human readers.
#5. Writing for skimming
Skimming is the new way of reading, we know this. But we never write for the skimmers only. We write something that is skimmable but pushes the readers to read the full piece of content.
Giving a subheading to each different section of the write-up is important, I know. And I’ve noticed that tools like Chatgpt are very good at giving subheadings that clearly tell the reader what that paragraph under it means.
But that is not the only purpose, you’ve to write with catchy subheadings, but you have to go in-depth while writing that paragraph underneath.
Most of the time tools like gemini and chatgpt, write the sub-headings and explain the generic information below, and that makes it very vague and less useful for the reader. So that turns your readers into skimmers, but remember we have to do the opposite — turning skimmers into readers.
Thinking of more tips….
These tips are not so popular and nobody talks about them. I’ve been asked so many times by fellow writers how to use AI as well as write human-like content. I know adding personal experiences, emotions, and real life scenarios is also good. The above methods have to be made available for all those who don’t know the deep things to stand out as a human writer (even after using chatgpt and gemini or any other).
Share more such tips in the comments, I will add that to the write up.
