Humanize Your AI Text

Everything I publish gets written with AI. The newsletter, the resources on this site, my scripts. And not one piece of it reads like a robot wrote it, because I spent an afternoon teaching Claude what to stop doing and saved it as a permanent rule.

This is that setup. It takes about five minutes.

What's inside:

• The 4-step setup, done entirely inside Claude
• Every AI writing pattern that actually gets flagged
• The full breakdown of what AI detectors are measuring
• Before-and-after examples
• A permanent skill you activate with one command

How it works

AI detectors don't read your writing for meaning. They read it for pattern. The same sentence shapes over and over. The same filler phrases. The same handful of words showing up way more than a person would ever use them. Strip the patterns out, and the text reads as human, because it is.

If you're a beginner using AI to keep up with content, this is the difference between sounding like a person and sounding like every other AI account in the feed.

There's a running list online that catalogues exactly what these patterns are. The move here is simple: feed that whole list to Claude, tell it to never use any of it again, then save the rules as a permanent skill so you're not re-explaining this every time you open a new chat.

What a Claude skill actually is: a saved set of instructions Claude follows the moment you activate it. Think of it as a mode. Type /humanizer, and every rule below gets applied automatically, every time, without you typing any of it out again.

The setup

Step 1: Tell Claude what to do

Open a new chat in Claude and paste this in:

I want you to humanize everything I write from now so it doesn't sound
like AI. No exceptions. Go find the commonly documented signs of AI
writing (patterns like inflated significance, AI vocabulary, em dash
overuse, filler phrases, chatbot pleasantries) at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing and read through
them closely. From now on, never use any of those patterns in your
writing. List out every pattern you found so I can confirm you
understand them all.

Claude will pull the patterns together and list them back to you. That list is your confirmation it actually processed everything, not just skimmed it.

Step 2: Check the list

Scan what Claude gives you back. You're looking for coverage across four buckets: content patterns (inflated importance, promotional language), language patterns (AI-favorite vocabulary, avoiding the word "is"), style patterns (em dash overuse, bold overuse), and communication patterns (chatbot pleasantries, empty validation). If a bucket looks thin, tell Claude to go back and dig deeper before moving on.

Step 3: Turn it into a permanent skill

Stay in the exact same chat. This part matters. Claude needs the context from steps 1 and 2 still loaded, or the skill won't include everything. Type:

/skill-creator

Build me a personal humanizer skill based off everything we just found,
so I never have to explain any of this again. Name it "human." Make it
activate when I type /humanizer.

Claude builds the full skill file, rules baked in, no extra formatting work on your end.

Step 4: Install it and use it forever

Once Claude generates the skill, install it. From that point forward:

/humanizer

Type that at the top of any chat, then write normally. Every rule applies automatically from there.

Every pattern that gets flagged

This is the full list your skill is built to avoid.

Content patterns

• Inflated significance. Looks like: "Marks a pivotal moment in..." Fix: just say what it is.
• Undue notability claims. Looks like: "Featured everywhere, praised by everyone..." Fix: cite one real, specific detail.
• -ing phrase padding. Looks like: "Highlighting... underscoring... emphasizing..." Fix: end the sentence, start a new one.
• Promotional language. Looks like: "vibrant", "groundbreaking", "breathtaking". Fix: use plain, specific description.
• Vague attributions. Looks like: "Experts say...", "Industry observers note..." Fix: name the source, or drop the claim.
• Empty optimism. Looks like: "Despite challenges, the future looks bright." Fix: state a specific fact instead.

Language patterns

• AI-favorite vocabulary. Looks like: "delve", "crucial", "landscape", "leverage". Fix: use the plain word. "Look into", not "delve".
• Avoiding "is". Looks like: "serves as", "stands as", "boasts". Fix: just say "is" or "has".
• Forced contrast. Looks like: "It's not just X, it's Y." Fix: state the point directly.
• Rule-of-three padding. Looks like: forcing exactly three examples every time. Fix: two or four is fine. Don't force it.
• Synonym cycling. Looks like: swapping in a new word for the same thing every sentence. Fix: pick one word and reuse it.
• False ranges. Looks like: "from X to Y" when X and Y aren't on a real scale. Fix: just list the things.

Style patterns

• Em dash overuse. Looks like: em dashes used for effect, constantly. Fix: commas, periods, or parentheses instead.
• Excessive bold. Looks like: nearly every phrase bolded for emphasis. Fix: bold sparingly, or not at all.
• Inline header lists. Looks like: "Speed: got faster this year..." Fix: write it as a normal sentence.
• Title case headers. Looks like: "Strategic Growth And Global Reach". Fix: sentence case, "Strategic growth".
• Emoji decoration. Looks like: every bullet starting with an emoji. Fix: drop it unless your audience expects it.

Communication patterns

• Chat artifacts. Looks like: "I hope this helps!", "Let me know!" Fix: cut every chatbot pleasantry.
• Cutoff disclaimers. Looks like: "As of my last update..." Fix: state the fact directly.
• Empty validation. Looks like: "Great question!", "You're so right!" Fix: skip it, answer the question.
• Filler phrases. Looks like: "in order to", "due to the fact that". Fix: "to", "because".
• Over-hedging. Looks like: "It could potentially possibly be argued..." Fix: pick a position and say it.
• Generic closers. Looks like: "The future looks bright!" Fix: end with a fact or a next step.

Before and after

Same information. Patterns removed.

A business post intro

Before: "In today's rapidly evolving landscape, AI-assisted content creation serves as a testament to the transformative potential available to solopreneurs everywhere, marking a pivotal shift in how business gets built."

After: "AI cuts real time out of content creation. In my own workflow, scripting and editing that used to take four hours a day now takes about ninety minutes."

The "before" hits five flagged patterns in one sentence. The "after" states a specific, real fact.

A product description

Before: "This groundbreaking system boasts a seamless workflow that fosters productivity and unlocks your full potential as a solopreneur. It's not just a system, it's a complete transformation."

After: "This is the exact system I use to run my content pipeline without a team. Six steps, start to finish, no editor and no scriptwriter."

The "before" is what I'd have posted two years ago. The "after" is what actually gets replies.

Advanced prompts

Once /humanizer is installed, pair it with these to fine-tune the output.

Match your actual voice

/humanizer

Here's an example of my writing style: [paste 2-3 paragraphs of your
own writing]. Match this voice, sentence rhythm, and vocabulary level
for everything you write in this chat.

Rewrite something that already sounds like AI

/humanizer

Rewrite the following so it reads as fully human-written. Remove every
AI pattern. Keep the information, change the sentence structure and
word choices.

[paste the text]

Self-audit before you post

Read the text below and identify every sign of AI writing you can find.
List each pattern with the exact phrase that triggered it. Then rewrite
it with all patterns removed.

[paste text to check]

Run this on your own writing before it goes out, even with the skill active. Every once in a while something slips through, and a quick check catches it before your audience does.

What detectors are actually measuring

Understanding this makes the whole system make sense.

Predictability. AI tends to pick the most statistically likely next word. Humans don't. We make unexpected word choices, leave thoughts a little unfinished, go off on tangents. The skill fixes this by varying sentence structure instead of writing the "safest" next word every time.

Rhythm. Human writing is uneven on purpose. Some sentences are short. Others run long. AI defaults to a consistent length and shape sentence after sentence. The skill breaks that evenness up intentionally.

Word overuse. Certain words show up in AI text far more than they'd ever show up in normal writing. "Delve", "crucial", "landscape", "foster". The skill swaps these for words a real person would actually reach for.

No system beats every detector in every situation forever, they keep changing. But writing that genuinely sounds like a person will hold up against most of them, most of the time, because that's the actual thing being measured.

I don't run my writing through detectors to game a score. I do it because content that sounds automated doesn't get saved, shared, or replied to, and that's the only metric that actually pays.

Quick reference

• Step 1. Tell Claude to humanize your text and read through the documented AI writing patterns.
• Step 2. Confirm it found patterns across all four categories.
• Step 3. Type /skill-creator and build the humanizer skill from what you found.
• Step 4. Install it.
• Use it. Type /humanizer at the top of any chat.
• Rewrite. Paste AI text, ask Claude to rewrite it as human.
• Audit. Paste text, ask Claude to flag every AI pattern in it.
• Voice match. Paste your own writing, ask Claude to match it.

Words to drop from your vocabulary:

• Significance: pivotal, testament, landmark, transformative
• Promotion: groundbreaking, vibrant, breathtaking, stunning
• AI vocabulary: delve, crucial, landscape, tapestry, leverage
• Filler: additionally, furthermore, in order to
• Hedging: potentially, arguably, it could be said
• Copula swaps: serves as, stands as, boasts. Just say "is".

Open Claude, paste the Step 1 prompt, and build the skill. Five minutes, then /humanizer does the work every time.

Built for beginners who are tired of sounding like everyone else. No team, no agency, AI is my staff.

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