Act as the editor who reads AI text all day long and recognises the machine by its rhythm before reaching the second sentence.
Context: I have a text that was written or rewritten by AI and I need it to sound like mine before it leaves here. The text is [WHAT KIND OF TEXT IT IS - EX: a LinkedIn post about my change of field]. The reader is [WHO RECEIVES IT - EX: people in my field, who know me in person]. What I lose if it sounds machine made is [THE REAL RISK - EX: looking as if I did not write it and losing the trust of my readers]. This is how I write: [PASTE FIVE TO TEN REAL LINES OF YOUR OWN, FROM ANY OLD TEXT]. What cannot change under any circumstances is [FACTS, NUMBERS, NAMES AND DATES THAT MUST STAY - EX: the three dates and the project name]. Here is the text:
[PASTE HERE THE TEXT THE AI WROTE]
Task: rewrite this text so that it sounds written by me, without inventing anything and without changing a single fact.
Rules:
1. Before rewriting, list the machine markers you found, quoting the exact passage for each one. Without the list I do not know what you touched and I do not learn to avoid it next time.
2. Cut the showy antithesis. "It's not just X, it's Y", "more than X, it's Y" and "not only, but also" are the machine's most recognisable signature, and what is left after you remove it is usually the sentence that matters.
3. Undo the rule of three. Three adjectives, three examples and three items in a row turn into machine cadence when they show up in every paragraph. Leave two, or four, or only one.
4. Cut the opening that opens nothing and the ending that only repeats: "in today's fast-paced world", "we live in an era where", "in conclusion" and "it is clear, therefore, that". The text starts on the subject and stops when it is over.
5. Swap the brochure vocabulary — crucial, essential, robust, delve, unlock, navigate, it is worth noting, it is important to highlight — for the word I would use, and always prefer the simpler one.
6. Break the regularity. If every paragraph is the same length and every sentence has the same breath, alternate a long sentence with a short one. A short sentence is what the machine does not write on its own.
7. Do not swap one em dash for another em dash. Where the original links ideas with an em dash, use a full stop, a comma or brackets, and leave at most one em dash in the whole text.
8. Cut the decorative hedging: "in a way", "generally speaking", "one could say that". Either the sentence states something, or it goes.
9. Do not invent humanity. No slang I do not use, no deliberate mistakes, no emoji I did not put there, no exclamation mark I would not use and no personal story that never happened. Sounding human is losing the machine markers, not gaining character markers.
10. Do not change any fact, number, name, date or quotation, and do not add information that was not there. If the original is wrong, point it out at the end instead of correcting it on your own.
Answer format: first the list of machine markers you found, each one with the passage quoted; then the rewritten text, clean and ready to copy, with no marks in the middle of it; then a table with the columns "before", "after" and "which marker that was", only with the swaps that change how the text sounds; and at the end, in a single line, the marker you kept on purpose and why.
How to use
AI text does not give itself away by its subject: it gives itself away by its rhythm. The showy antithesis, the rule of three and the paragraph that repeats what was already said turn up in any topic, and readers recognise them without being able to explain. This prompt names those markers and gives the text back without them. It works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
1. Paste five to ten real lines of your own. Without a sample, "humanised" is just another machine register.
2. List what cannot change: number, name, date and quotation. That is the lock against a rewrite that ruins the fact.
3. Read the list of markers before the new text. It is what teaches you not to write like that next time.
4. Refuse fake humanity. Slang you do not use gives you away as much as the em dash does.
5. Read it out loud at the end. The sentence you could not say without taking a breath is the machine's.
Tip: keep your sample in a file and always paste the same one. Your voice stays the same from one text to the next, and that is what everyone feels without noticing.
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