So, you wrote something with AI, tried to humanize it somewhat, and those AI checkers still catch it? Similar to hiding a robot in a crowd – even if you put it in disguise, there are things that don’t work well at all. Keep in mind that AI writes based on patterns it identifies in huge stacks of text. It learns what words tend to come together and how sentences are structured. This creates a kind of “footprint,” a statistically predictable way of writing. Those subtextual patterns can persist even when you convert the words.
Just imagine the AI has now written a paragraph which is so smooth and gorgeously structured that it feels too well-made. When you “humanize” it, you may repair a few sentences, but you won’t change the overall, too polished feel. But AI checkers are getting better at detecting these things in the first place. They don’t just tally words anymore; they note the way the ideas connect, whether the sentences have natural peaks and valleys and whether there are strange, almost-right facts. They’re searching for indicators that a machine assembled the words, not a human.
One option for not getting caught might be using Google Docs as your workspace and Chunk to install a Chrome extension like Originality Report that records your writing process. Also, do not write something and then use AI tools to edit the article since this may also be detected by AI detector software.
AI detectors are not 100% accurate, and they can prove to be overzealous, flagging human-written copy as AI-generated content, something that’s likely to happen if that copy has been edited to coherence. So far, so good, but be warned: these are early days for such tools, and their accuracy depends on the algorithms' sophistication and the quality of the datasets used for training.