Have you ever seen someone suddenly pull up a perfect reply to your text, which made you wonder if it’s really coming from them?
Well, it is possible that the person, whom you were talking to, used an AI tool to whip up a reply they found a bit challenging to come up with themselves.
But AI-generated replies feel rather odd and robotic, as if they’re scripted and are not a natural response, to be honest. And if you’re thinking of doing the same (or are doing it already - sending someone an AI-generated message), just know that the other person might not regard it very well.
After all, they’re talking to you and not to some artificial chatbot. So, it’s natural that they expect you to come up with a reply and not use an AI tool to do something so basic.
But sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to use a little help, that’s for sure. Luckily, there’s a way to send people AI-generated text without making it sound too robotic: you need to do this by rewriting the AI text to make it sound human-written, which is also known as humanizing AI text.
In this article, we will explore how to humanize AI-generated text to make it sound more human-written.
What Does It Mean to Humanize AI Text?
Humanizing AI text means to rewrite it in your own words, so that it feels like it was written by a human being, rather than an AI writing tool.
Humanizing AI text is an effective way to make it engaging and more relatable for your readers. They will feel as if the text is human-written.
Why Rewrite AI Text for Real Conversations?
The purpose of humanizing AI text is simply to make it seem human-written, whether the reader is a human you're trying to give this impression or a machine.
For this, humanizing focuses on altering the AI text in such a way that it resembles average human text. So, humanizing your AI text doesn't mean you write some fancy words. It just means you write in a way that humans do, normally.
Now, let's understand how we can humanize AI text.
How to Humanize AI Text?
Humanizing AI text involves several rewriting techniques, which are also used in paraphrasing a piece of text. Namely, these techniques are:
1. Replacing Commonly Used AI Words:
This technique involves replacing words that are most commonly used by AI tools. If these words, like “innovation” and “landscape,” are present in a piece of text, they can make it feel like it’s coming from an AI tool, so it’s best to replace them or remove them if possible.
2. Rewriting Sentences:
Rewriting some of the sentences in AI-generated text can give it a natural feeling given that you write them in your natural way of writing. Remember, the goal of humanizing is to make the text feel less likely AI-written, but if you’re rephrasing sentences like AI tools would do, it wouldn’t help humanize it.
In this technique, you need to focus on breaking AI writing’s rhythm by restructuring the sentences. You can do this by simply altering the clauses; breaking or combining them to split or join sentences, respectively.
3. Changing Active Voice Into Passive Voice:
In real conversations, people don’t normally use passive voice sentences to communicate. But AI tools may write passive voice sentences in the messages they generate, which can make them feel robotic. This is why you should rewrite these sentences and switch their passive voice to active voice wherever possible.
4. Varying Text Length:
Another feature of AI-generated text is uniformity in text length. For example, AI tools tend to write sentences and paragraphs of roughly the same length. If one paragraph is equal to 3 sentences and about 30-35 words, other paragraphs will likely have similar length.
This is a subtle AI pattern, but it is one of the things that make your text feel robotic. That’s why you should vary your text length and write both long and short sentences and paragraphs.
5. Avoiding Common AI Phrases:
Aside from common words, AI tools also repeat some unique phrases that you can easily find in their content. If these phrases are also present in your messages, they can feel odd and give away their origin. You must find these phrases and rephrase them in your own words. Here are some examples of such phrases:
“not only, but also”
Example: “This sentence is not only correct, but also serves as an excellent example.”
“while, not/also”
Examples: “While AI tools are fast, they can also make content sound robotic.” “While AI tools can greatly assist in writing, they’re not a good substitute for human writers.”
With these five simple rewriting techniques, you can humanize your AI messages and avoid coming across as robotic and AI-like to keep the conversation feel real and authentic.
Conclusion
In conclusion, rewriting AI text means making it sound more human-written, so that it's more relatable to your readers and more realistic for real conversations. AI text can be made more human-sounding through humanization, which involves several simple rewriting techniques, including: changing the word choice, restructuring sentences, changing passive voice into active voice, varying text length, and also avoiding common AI patterns, like common terms used by AI tools, common AI phrases, and other patterns that make text feel AI-generated.
Humanizing AI text for real conversations can make them feel more genuine and authentic and avoid making the other person feel uncomfortable by sending them literal AI text.
