How to Humanize AI Written Content (To Pass AI Detection)
AI tools are a blessing when it comes to content volume.
But as I’ve used them to triple my content output, I’ve seen firsthand that content quality is another story.
Nobody wants to read something that they can tell was written by a bot (and Google doesn’t like it, either.)
With several years of experience as a content writer, I’ve learned what it takes to help AI writing hit the mark. I now successfully use it to boost content production while still maintaining my clients’ voice and quality standards. 
Here are a few tips and tricks that I use as a professional writer to make your AI-written content more human-like.
Key takeaways:
AI writers can help you save time and streamline content creation, but you should always edit and humanize the content. 
Humanizing AI content makes it more personable and engaging, which can also help it rank better on Google.
Run all AI content through an AI detector to learn where you must make adjustments.
Writing effective, detailed prompts and training AI tools on your writing style will reduce necessary editing. 
Humanize AI content by removing repetition, adding anecdotes, injecting humor, and personalizing the content to your audience.
What Is AI-Generated Content?
AI-generated content is any content generated by artificial intelligence (aka machine learning.)
AI-written content includes blog posts, social media captions, email content, etc that are created by software. 
Modern AI writers can craft written work based on a few words or sentences. They use natural language processing (NLP) to analyze a given text and create entire articles or suggestions.
AI writing assistants can help with every aspect of writing, including:
Research
Outline creation
Brainstorming
Grammar
Tone checking
How Does AI Content Help With Content Creation?
AI content can increase the volume of content you put out and serve as a great jumping-off point to create more original content.
The top ways that AI can help with content creation include:
Reduce time spent on research
Gather sources and key points
Create a basic outline 
Get ideas down as a starting point
Optimize content/ include keywords
Streamline the content writing process
For niche site owners and those in the digital marketing space, AI content is a great way to augment your site with more content, but it is not a total replacement for organic content.
How to Tell If AI-Content Will Be Detected?
One of the biggest issues with AI content is that it technically goes against Google’s guidelines and could lead to SEO-related penalties, particularly if it is low quality and lacks value.
That’s why you should never directly post AI content before editing and humanizing it. 
You can work around these guidelines by humanizing your content, but you don’t want to post your content before making sure it can’t be detected by the algorithms.
Luckily, there are options available that allow you to check all of your AI content to see if it’s detectable to these filters.
We recommend using an AI detection tool. There are plenty of free ones available, and some AI writers offer checkers as a part of their services.
Why Should You Personalize AI-Generated Content?

You need to personalize and humanize your AI-generated content to make it more appropriate to your site.
Doing so helps fill in the gaps, fact-check, and make it more relatable to your target audience.
Here’s more about the top reasons AI writing needs editing:
1. To Match the Voice of Your Site
AI generators lack one big thing: you.
Your site hopefully has a unique voice and tone that fits your brand.
Editing AI content to make it sound more like you allows it to blend in with the rest of your content, making it feel more natural.
2. AI Content Isn’t Perfect
Though AI writers have come a loooong way, they’re still far from being perfect.
Some of the biggest issues with AI written content are that it can get repetitive, it can provide some information without context, and just have a generally disorganized layout.
A quick edit can easily solve these problems.
3. To Add in Data/Fact-Check
Since AI generators can only pull information that’s already out there, they may pull from sources that have incorrect information.
Checking the statistics, percentages, and general information provided by AI-written content can prevent your site from spreading fake news.
4. To Make Content More SEO-Friendly
Many of the AI writers out there today are great at optimizing their work for SEO, but it’s important to double-check to make sure your AI content ranks higher.
5. For Audience Personalization and Better Conversation
AI-written content isn't exactly… warm.
Humanizing AI content can make it more personable and conversational, (aka, the key to keeping an audience engaged).
That’s why many AI detection and paraphrasing tools, like Undetectable.ai, have the option to customize the type of writing and the audience for the content.
Why Does AI Content Need To Be Fact Checked and Edited?
AI writers do not fact-check and are guilty of repetition and grammatical errors.
As far as AI writers have come, they are limited in what information they draw from. They cannot do any sort of fact-checking on anything. 
For example, AI tools don’t check to see if a site they scraped info from is reputable or trustworthy. They don’t crosscheck or verify information with other sources.
They also are capable of hallucinating (not in a fun way, in a weird way, like if someone tried to write down a fever dream.) You may get jumbled, weird sentence fragments riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. Not great for content.
Looking over AI content and fixing these issues, as well as fact-checking any statistics it provides you with, are essential for creating sensical, accurate content.
Tips to Make AI Writing Undetectable
To humanize AI-generated content you need to add in the “human touch” by personalizing the content for your business and audience, cleaning up the fluff, and adding new human-generated ideas.
More specifically:
1. Use the Right Tools for the Job
To avoid having to do more work on the backend, use a high-quality AI writer in the first place.
An intuitive tool like Content at Scale is great at capturing the human voice and generating better AI content so that you can cut down on time editing the produced content.
Also, consider all-in-one detector and rewriter tools like Undetectable.Ai (review) and QuillBot (review).
2. Treat AI Content as a First Draft
Please don’t just copy and paste raw AI-generated content onto your site. We’re begging you.
AI content is a rough draft that provides a good jumping-off point but by no means should it be treated as finalized content. Always edit before posting.
3. Add in Human Generated Ideas
The thing about AI (which is also known as machine learning) is that it can only provide information that’s already available on the internet.
At least for now, AI writers can’t come up with original ideas or new concepts, so adding human insight can make AI content more… well, human.
Learn more about what to do with AI content once it's been generated, by checking out our list of the best AI writing courses.
4. Revise for Voice
The lack of empathy from AI writers can make the content sound robotic at times.
Adding in a few sentences and re-wording things here and there makes the written content more recognizable and relevant to your site.
5. Give Proper Context
When generating new AI content, you need to be specific in your instruction to the generator itself.
Giving important details like what topics you want to cover, what the goal of the article is, and what sort of voice you want the content to have can help the generator produce better results.
6. Clean Up Fluff
As we said, AI writers can create repetitive content that could be a bit fluffy.
Look at the content you’re given by your AI and trim the fat. This means cutting out extra sentences that don’t provide new information and making the content more concise.
7. Edit for Your Readers
AI doesn’t know your readers like you do.
Editing content to make it more understandable for your specific audience can make all the difference.
8. A/B Testing
Since AI writers are so new, everyone is still trying to figure out the right way to use them.
If you notice that your AI content just isn’t ranking as well as you want it to, take that into account and try a different approach the next time you create AI content.
This may mean giving the AI more thorough instruction, adjusting the target keywords, or editing the generated content differently.
9. Run It Through an AI Detector
Once you have your content all ready to go, run it through an AI detector before hitting “publish.”
If you get a low “human content” score, you may need to edit again. Though this sounds like an annoying extra step, it’s better than publishing crappy content that sounds like it was written by a robot and getting punished by Google.
Check out our list of favorite AI detectors.
The Importance of Adding a Human Touch
No matter how advanced the technology gets, AI writers lack humanity.
There is a unique voice that real human writers develop over time based on their life experiences and personality. Machines don’t have life experiences or personalities. While they are great at making content sound human-like, they don’t have a personality that can come through in their content.
Having a person tweak content and add a bit of their own voice into it makes the content interesting, compelling, and easier to read.
If nothing else, add a human touch to avoid penalization from Google’s algorithm.
Does Google Punish AI Content?
Remember how we mentioned that thing about Google guidelines prohibiting AI content? Yeah, it’s a real thing.
Though they have never directly specified how they can detect AI-written content, they have threatened vague “punishments” for AI-written posts. They didn’t go into much detail on that either, but it’s always best to err on the side of caution.
Read more about that on our “Can Google Detect AI-Generated Content?” post.
Using Human Writers to Make AI Content Undetectable
If your content keeps getting flagged as AI, take a different approach.
Using a writing service is a great way to get real-life writers’ eyes on the content. They can edit it or even replace entire paragraphs with human-generated content that will make your AI content undetectable.
We recommend using a writing service to augment your content volume in general as well so that your site has a good mix of AI-generated and human-generated content.
Some pieces just need to be written by a real-life, human copywriter.



How Do AI Content Detectors Work?

As computers get better at writing or creating content, it's becoming more common to see their work online. Yet content that’s 100% created by machines tends not to be as valuable or enjoyable to readers.
Google hasn’t said it will outright punish it, but they have tightened the reins on what they consider “helpful content”, aka what ranks higher.
This is why it's important to have these detectors.
This helps keep things clear and honest online, and in the classroom, making sure that we can trust the information we come across.
What is AI Detection?
AI detection is about figuring out if a computer or a person made a piece of content, including articles or photos.
Special software looks for clues in the content that might show it's made by AI.
As computers get better at creating things that seem like they were made by humans, it's important to have a way to check the source.
AI detection helps make sure people know where their information or media is coming from. It's especially useful in schools, news, and other areas.

AI detectors use advanced technology to discern if the content was made by humans or AI. They particularly focus on language models for text. Language models are complex algorithms trained on vast amounts of text data to predict the next word in a sentence. They're the backbone of AI content creation and detection.
When AI detectors analyze text, they often look at perplexity and burstiness-two key indicators that can signal AI-generated content.
Perplexity
Low perplexity= greater chance of AI content
If a piece of content has low perplexity, it means the text is very predictable to the model. This is often a sign it might be AI-generated because AI tends to create more predictable and less varied text.
Burstiness
Low burstiness= greater chance of AI text
Burstiness refers to the variability in the length and complexity of sentences.
Human-written text usually shows more burstiness because our writing style varies more than a machine's. AI-generated text tends to be more uniform. It has less variation in sentence structure and length.
Language Model Assessment
AI detectors compare the content to what a language model would generate. They analyze if the text follows patterns too closely aligned with what a model would predict.
By examining these aspects, AI detectors can provide insights into whether content is more likely to have been generated by a human or an AI. They often provide you with a percentage likelihood score.
Are AI Detectors Reliable?

Kind of. They tell you if content reads like AI writing (and to what degree), but that doesn’t necessarily tell you if it was written by AI. Skilled AI users who leverage prompts to reduce predictability can easily bypass AI detection. Simply paraphrasing the AI’s output can also help.
Let’s take a look at an example:
For example, l asked ChatGPT to write 150 words about how important humans are for content writing.
Then, I passed the (unedited) content through Content at Scale’s AI detector (review).

Unsurprisingly, it told me the content read like AI. Additionally, it highlighted the most “AI-y” areas in red. The “still robotic but slightly less” sentences are highlighted in orange. No sentences are unflagged (which is good since they were all AI).
Then, I wrote my own tidbit on the same topic (before even reading what ChatGPT had said). I put this through the same detector.

Overall, it did great. Most of my text was green, and the overall score was “human.” Even so, it marked some of my content as red or orange. Yet it was 100% human-written.
So clearly, this tool is not 100% accurate. Still, it did a fairly good job. Other tools have varying accuracy rates, but ultimately none are terrible and none are perfect. They all give some helpful insight into how content was created, which serves as a good starting point for editing.
P.S. Does all of this talk about human writers have you fired up? Check out our favorite sites to hire freelance writers. 
How to Use AI Content Detectors for Your Content

Despite lacking 100% accuracy, content detectors can still be helpful tools.
AI detectors provide several use cases and benefits for a wide array of industries. The most common places include:
Education– To examine student work and ensure academic honesty. Read this guide to learn how teachers can use AI detection.
Publishing– If they are focused on publishing human-written content only, like many publications on the site Medium.
Recruitment– That want to ensure that applicants write their own cover letters.
Web content creation– Content writers concerned that AI content may rank lower.
Now, since they are fallible, we shouldn’t use these tools to mark someone as a cheater who used AI tools definitively. Still, they can raise red flags for teachers to evaluate further.
Overall, here’s how I often use AI detectors in my role as a content writer:
To check AI text that I already edited and humanized to ensure it’s reading naturally
To evaluate my own writing and look for areas to improvement
To see where text is cumbersome, repetitive, or robotic
As a tool to evaluate and check new writers
To check readability when improving and optimizing previously published content
Check out our guide to finding the perfect AI content editor!
Tips for Manually Spotting AI-Generated Text

In addition to AI detectors, you can (and should) use your judgment to evaluate text. There are plenty of obvious tell-tale signs of AI writing. Here’s what to look for (and avoid in your writing):
Overly Formal Language
AI tools write very formal, lacking a conversational tone. For many types of content, the writing tone comes across as stiff and too formal.
Keep an eye out for overly polite language.
Monotonous Tone
AI-generated text lacks the emotional depth and variety of human writing. It maintains a consistent tone throughout, missing the natural shifts in emotion or emphasis that a human writer would naturally include.
If you're reading a story and notice that the excitement, tension, or joy doesn't quite come through in the words, it might be AI-generated.
Predictable Structure
AI follows learned patterns, leading to formulaic text.
if every paragraph follows the exact same pattern and all sentences have similar lengths and structures, then it might be machine-generated.
Lacks Originality
AI can only draw from what it knows, and that’s its data set (and maybe the internet). Therefore, it can’t offer new insights or take unique perspectives.
Look out for pieces that only re-state common knowledge without new insights or articles that use very common examples. These are likely AI-made.
Logical Problems
AI has a funny habit of writing content that contradicts itself. While editing content, I’ve seen the AI writing claim one car maker is more reliable than the other in one section, and then the complete opposite in another area.
Beware of contradictions or disjointed arguments. They signal AI writing.
Plagiarism Checker vs AI Detector

Educational institutions may use both AI detectors and plagiarism checkers, but they are two different tools. Here are the biggest differences:
AI detectors measure characteristics of a text to try to determine if it was written by AI tools.
Plagiarism checkers examine if a text is copied from an uncited source. They compare the text to previously published content.
Notably, plagiarism checkers may flag parts of AI text because it rephrases information found online without citing it. This happens most often with common topics.
However, the goal of plagiarism checkers is not to find AI writing, so they are not the best tool for doing so.
The Future of AI Content Detection

As AI becomes more sophisticated in generating realistic text, images, and videos, detection methods must evolve to keep pace.
This constant back-and-forth drives innovation, pushing both creators and detectors.
AI Watermarking
OpenAI is exploring a watermarking system. Watermarking would embed a nearly invisible signal within the text to confirm its AI origin.
It could revolutionize how we identify AI-generated content. Watermarking would make it straightforward to distinguish between human and machine-created texts, enhancing transparency and trust in digital content.
However, this is just a concept they’ve talked about. So far, it still hasn’t been implemented.
AI Image and Video Detectors
As AI tools for images and videos get more popular, detecting them becomes more important as well.
Currently, these technologies still have several limitations that make it pretty clear I was involved. Extra (or missing fingers), strange placements, uncanny valley faces, and incorrect text are noticeable signs.
Still, these tools are improving by the minute, making it increasingly harder to manually detect AI vs human-made images. For that reason, AI image and video detectors are already popping up to help us differentiate.
We’ve already tested some of them out. Check out our breakdown of the best AI image detection tools.
Conclusion
AI detection tools look for clues in text like repetitive styles or too-perfect patterns.
Looking ahead, new methods like watermarks in texts or better checks for images and videos will help us know what's real and what's not. This ongoing challenge keeps pushing technology forward.


Getting the Most Out of AI Writing: Tips and Tricks

Navigating through all the different AI writing tools can feel a little daunting.
With this field being so new (and potentially helpful), we wanted to make sure that you’re prepped with my tips and tricks on how to pick and use AI writing software effectively.
As an editor and writer, I’ve spent hours testing out the best AI writers and have compiled my notes for you here.
How AI Writing Works – GTP3

AI writing software is basically a combination of GTP-3 and machine learning models. Programmers feed the AI a massive amount of content from across the web to “learn” from. Then it reconfigures that megaton of information based on the description (or keywords) that you provide the AI writer, how many words you want the text to be, and the templates that the programmers created for the AI.
From there, it produces your article, product description, ad, or even email.
What Are AI Writers Used For?

AI writing tools help content creators scale up the amount of content they create. It’s like a writing assistant who bangs out content within seconds. Now, it’s not always great, human-like content, but with some editing, it can definitely lighten your writing load.
Most content creators use AI writing tools to write the things they’re not always fond of or perhaps don’t have time for. The typical array of content includes Facebook ads, cover letters, blog articles, content briefs, and many more. With 66% of bloggers using AI to create “How-To” content.
How to Choose AI Writing Tool
Before sitting down to test out some of the AI writing software, take a moment to really plan out how you’re going to use this software as well as how to measure the effectiveness of AI-generated content for your business.
Here are a few questions that I would ask myself:
What are the gaps in my writing tasks?
The answer will look different for everyone. But you need to first analyze which writing tasks are falling by the wayside and create a list with two headings Short-Form Content (under 1,000 words) and Long-Form Content (over 1,000 words).
If you’re struggling to keep up with or produce items like ads, product descriptions, emails, or blog intros, you’ll want to add those to the Short-Form Content. If you need blog articles as a whole, you’ll want to put that under Long-Form.
What type of content do I want to create?
Now that you know where your gaps are, you can start to see what you’re actually going to use the AI writing tool for, which translates into how many words you’ll need to purchase from the AI writing company.
Look at your list from the previous question, and be honest about how many items you plan to write per month as well as the average length (in words) of those items. The table below has an average word count for a few examples short- and long-form content to give you a frame of reference.
As you can see, the long-form content is going to eat up word count fast. Make some rough estimates for how many words you think you’ll use in a month. Round up. Some AI tools are pretty stingy and count words against you even if you change your mind after selecting them.
Which AI Writing Tools Should I Test Out?
The biggest determining factor in which tool to use depends on how much long-form content you will need.
If you merely struggle with blog intros and have a ton of content briefs, social media posts or ads, you can get away with a short-form friendly AI writer like Mentum [review] or Frase [review] (which is great for content briefs) with a template for blog intro. However, if you want the flexibility to write an entire blog post, you’ll want to test out something like Copy.ai [review], Jasper [review], or Writesonic [review].
Knowing what types of content and how many words you’ll need per month will help you narrow down the field quite a bit. It’s also super helpful to look at my reviews for each of these services to see which ones look the most promising. You can also read our comparison of Jasper vs ChatGPT in case you're not sure which of the two to go for.
Which AI Writing Tools Offer Free Trials?
Time to have some geeky fun and start testing out the different AI writers.
Many AI writing tools (like Copy.ai, Writesonic, and Mentum) offer free trials. Others offer a money-back guarantee.
Personally, I’m not a fan of giving my credit card out or being charged before I test any kind of software. My philosophy is that if the company is confident in the quality of its product and thus my desire to purchase the product, then it’ll let me test the service out without requiring my credit card.
How to Measure Effectiveness of AI-Generated Content
Now that you have your plan for which content you’ll create and which AI writing software you’ll use, you need to have benchmarks in place beforehand to make sure you’re getting the kind of returns you wanted to see or where you can improve the process.

After testing out the best AI writing tools, I started to find areas that I could see others struggling with and perhaps some pitfalls. Below, there are a few tips for working with and humanizing AI writers.
Editing
You will absolutely need to do editing. At this point, no AI is producing human-quality output. So no, writers won’t be losing their jobs any time soon.
What the AI writer will give you is a text that cuts the time spent on writing down to mere seconds. It won’t be perfect, and it might sound stilted. At times, the text sounded like someone whose second language is English wrote the text.
For that reason and others, you want your in-house editor to bring it up to your standards. This can also help with Google thinking your content is generated by human writers.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
There is an old coding adage that summarizes using any form of AI: Garbage in, garbage out. In other words, the software is only as good as what you and the programmers put into it.
For your part, you want to make sure you use several strong longtail keywords, phrases, or even sentences (depending on what you want the AI to produce). The better quality and quantity of input you have, the better your output will be, which means you’ll have to spend less time editing.
Factcheck and Plagiarism
AI writing tools are nothing more than fancy programs. (We’re not talking about Skynet here.) It’s still a computer program that will just spit out what it’s “trained” to do. Having said that, I’ve found major issues with paragraphs in blog articles. In the Frase review, you’ll find questionable and cringeworthy output (also known as AI hallucinations). In another article from Copy.ai, I learned that AI writers aren’t great at math (typical English major problem). I’ve questioned the accuracy of some of the content across multiple platforms. Plus, given how prolific false information is on the web these days, it’s something for editors to be aware of.
Because of how AI-generated content is created, the risk of plagiarism is high. Only Jasper offers a plagiarism checker. These issues underscore the real need for editors to go behind the AI-generated output and check for both credibility and plagiarism.
Options Are Your Friend
Whenever you tell the AI writer to create an email, for example, some AI writers will give you multiple versions of an email to choose from. And then some only give you one version.
If you’ve seen my walkthrough videos and read the reviews from Copy.ai or Frase, you’ll know that I appreciated having multiple versions to choose from.
My reasoning is simple. If I take an extra minute to find the option closest to what I believe my readers will find useful, then I will spend less time and resources on editing and rewriting later.
Having more options to choose from ultimately helps save me time and allows me to get the most out of my money. Having to rework an entire blog section is not only a waste of my time but also my money.
For example, Writesonic generates multiple versions of a blog article’s outline (which is great), but it doesn’t allow me to pick which version of a paragraph I want. Copy.ai will let me customize my article from the beginning rather than just giving me an entire article that I might not be happy with and will need to either regenerate a new article or just edit and rewrite until I’m satisfied.
Now, if you need a ton of content quickly and don’t mind the work on the backend to bring it up to standards, then having an entire article in 30 seconds will definitely suit your needs.
This balance is one of those areas you need to consider when looking at which AI writing tool will work for you.