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The use of AI writing tools is everywhere from LinkedIn to Substack and just about everywhere in between. So it's no surprise that AI users are looking for ways to disguise their writing in hopes to bypass AI detectors like GPTZero and Pangram.To see if these humanizer actually work, I tried several different ones to see the results. As it turns out, the writing ended up sounding more like AI slop than what the AI writing tool churned out in the first place.Clear sentences came back stuffed with bizarre synonyms and the rhythm became choppy and unnatural. In some cases, the tools changed facts or stripped away important context. The results sounded anything but human.What AI humanizers actually change
(Image credit: Pexels / Eren Li)AI detectors look for patterns that frequently appear in machine-generated text. These can include predictable word choices, repetitive sentence structures and a suspiciously consistent rhythm.Many humanizers appear to target those patterns and then replace common words with less predictable alternatives. These humanizers also chop up sentences and rearrange clauses in an effort to spin whatever AI has written. Frankly, the results are so off that you're better off just writing that essay or presentation yourself just to save yourself the embarrassment of coming back from an AI humanizer. And yes, these tools do make the writing statistically less predictable, but unpredictable writing isn’t necessarily good writing. Sometimes it’s simply harder to read.A sentence such as “This phone has excellent battery life” might become “The mobile handset boasts an endurance capacity that remains notably elevated.” Technically, the basic idea is still there. Nobody would willingly write it that way.1. They sound like bad machine translations
