How to Humanize AI Generated Content Tips — Step-by-Step Guide

Seven tested tips for humanizing AI content

After editing thousands of AI-generated documents, I keep returning to the same seven techniques. They work for blog posts, academic essays, cold emails, internal reports, and pretty much any other format. I've listed them in order of impact.

1. Rewrite the opening from scratch

Detectors weigh the first 100 words more heavily than the rest of the document. AI openings are incredibly predictable: "In today's rapidly evolving landscape..." or "It is widely acknowledged that..." Delete the entire first paragraph and write something new from memory. If you only make one change, make this one.

2. Use contractions everywhere

This is stupidly simple but it works. Change "do not" to "don't," "it is" to "it's," "they are" to "they're." AI defaults to formal, uncontracted English. Contractions immediately shift the tone into conversational territory, which is one of the easiest signals of human writing.

3. Insert one hyper-specific anecdote per 500 words

AI cannot fabricate the details of your actual life. "When I ran the Q3 campaign for a DTC skincare brand in Karachi, our click-through rate jumped 34% after we switched to mobile-first creative" is something no model would generate. These details function as proof of human authorship that no detector can challenge.

4. Vary your paragraph lengths aggressively

Some paragraphs should be one sentence long.

Others should stretch to five or six sentences, building a sustained argument that carries the reader through a complex point without interruption, creating the kind of flowing rhythm that AI simply does not produce because its training optimizes for uniformity.

See the difference? That variation registers as high burstiness on detector algorithms.

5. Delete every transition word you can find

Search your document for "Moreover," "Furthermore," "In addition," "In conclusion," and "It is important to note that." Delete all of them. These transitional phrases appear at a much higher frequency in AI text than in human writing. Just start the next sentence. Your reader doesn't need the hand-holding.

6. Run the text through a structural humanizer

The tips above handle the stylistic layer. But there is also a mathematical layer, specifically the perplexity and burstiness scores that detectors use to classify text. Humanize AI Pro adjusts these statistics algorithmically so the text reads as human to both people and machines. It handles what manual editing cannot.

7. Read it out loud before publishing

This is the final check. Read the entire piece out loud, and if you stumble over a sentence, rewrite it. If a paragraph sounds like a textbook, break it up. Your ear is the last and most reliable AI detector you have.