As fast as AI tools are, their content remains robotic, with zero authenticity.
Lacking authenticity is one of the reasons why AI content feels generic and boring to read, as if it has no personality and author.
But using AI tools for writing is not inherently a bad thing — they’re just tools. In fact, using generative tools to some extent have almost become essential as workflows become more and more AI-driven.
So, if you’re using AI tools to write content, how can you add a human touch and authenticity in it? We’ve answered this question in this article, along with essential steps you can take to do this.
What Is Authenticity In Writing?
Authenticity in a piece of writing is that uniqueness that makes it feel like it is based on your genuine experiences and beliefs.
The opposite of authentic writing is inauthentic, “formulaic” writing, in which an author attempts to mimic someone else’s style and beliefs.
Some key aspects of authentic writing includes:
Author’s personal voice
Truthfulness and honesty
Meaningfulness
Emotional depth
Authenticity in writing can make it impactful and emotional to read.
How to Make AI Writing Feel Authentic And Human-Written
You can make AI writing feel authentic, and as if it was written by a human being by humanizing it. Here are some key practices you can follow:
1. Add Your Personal Voice
AI-generated writing remains generic and neutral, because these tools only tap the surface of a topic and avoid subjective point-of-views. The text is free of bias, slang, and full of generic wording like “in the world of digital marketing,” which makes the writing feel inauthentic and lifeless.
That’s why you should try to humanize AI-generated pieces by adding your own personal voice. Replace the generic phrases and expressions and rewrite the text as you would converse in real life, with the examples, words, expressions, and analogies, and sentence structures you’d use. You can automate this process of humanizing using our AI text humanizer, AIToHumanText.co that humanizes your text content to make it natural and human-written to read by altering its words and sentences. The output text feels less AI, but more human-written.
Doing so will turn AI’s generic text into a text that feels personal to read, like it’s coming from you.
2. Add Real Experiences and Examples
AI tools don’t write from original experiences. Their writing is always based on what is found on the internet, including blog posts, social media posts, and other publications. This lack of experience in writing directly impacts its authenticity.
But as a human being, you can add your experiences and beliefs to the AI content. Focus on drawing from your own experiences and beliefs. What do you feel about a topic? What does your experience say about it? What personal examples would you add to the topic?
For example, you can open the piece by sharing an anecdote, and add more from yourself as you continue.
3. Vary Sentence Lengths and Structures
Ai tools write sentences in a uniform length and structure. This overly-uniform of their sentences makes their writing predictable and robotic to read. And anybody who reads robotic content will assume that it’s not authentic.
On the other hand, human beings tend to write varied sentences, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. The natural flow of sentences make the writing feel personal to read, like it’s coming from a real author, which you can do by varying the AI text’s sentence length.
Just make sure the sentences are not uniform when editing the AI text. Instead, paraphrase them by splitting or combining to add variation.
4. Add Honest Opinions and Ideas
When it comes to the content itself, the opinions and ideas, readers expect honesty and openness. They want to hear what you really think, your genuine thoughts. It is a defining factor for your content’s authenticity.
If your content is just based on existing content and others’ opinions, as in the case of AI, it loses authenticity and feels “fake” as in pretending to be honest but it’s just paraphrased existing content.
So, don’t rely on raw AI opinions. Instead, edit the text to share your genuine feelings and thoughts. Tap into readers’ emotions with emotional words and phrases.
5. Edit for Personality
Personality is one of the aspects that add that feeling of authenticity in your writing. But as we learned, AI writing lacks this aspect. Most of the writing is bland and dry, because of how these tools are designed to write.
That’s why you must edit the AI text to make it sound like how you’d actually write. To do this, first, work to remove over-used and mundane AI words, like “landscape” and “innovation.” Then look for common AI phrases and change them.
You can subtly add repetition of ideas or words, or sometimes filler words like “well” and phrases if that makes the writing feel uniquely yours.
6. Make It Evident Through Visuals
One thing that amps up your writing’s authenticity is the fact that you can show your readers what you’re talking about. This means not just claiming something in theory, but actually making it evident through visuals.
This, again, is something that AI tools can’t do, but we humans can.
For example, if your AI-generated copy is about a historical event, find and add relevant media to your content, like images, videos, gifs, etc. Or, if you’re writing about a product, go ahead and take photos or record a clip that demonstrates what your text is about. Don’t belittle these small efforts; they show that there’s a real person behind the scenes. Even a simple screen-shot with quick yet helpful doodles makes a big difference.
Your visual proof earns readers’ trust, because the content is now evidently coming from you.
7. Fact-Check
Inaccuracy can kill authenticity. If people find your content to be inaccurate, or even outdated, they will question its authenticity. Is this really coming from you or an AI tool, because AI content is pretty rampant, and most of it is inaccurate and fabricated — people who upload don’t realize.
For this, you need to make sure your content is accurate and up-to-date. Fact-check the information and cite or mention sources where needed. You can also add your own findings and observations, of course, if they’re concrete. Not only will it add to your content’s authenticity and make it less AI-like, but also make it more credible and trustworthy for readers.
Conclusion
AI tools are fast and can save you hours of work and idea-finding in writing. But relying on AI tools for writing also comes with some challenges, including a lack of authenticity in writing. This article explains how you can turn your AI-written content into authentic copies that feel personal and written by you, with simple tips, including: Adding your personal voice, adding real experiences, varying sentence lengths, adding your honest and open opinions, showing evidence through visuals, polishing the writing to add a touch of personality, and fact-checking.
