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How to Rewrite AI-Generated Text? 13 Telltale AI Signs + Easy Fixes
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How to Rewrite AI-Generated Text? 13 Telltale AI Signs + Easy Fixes

In this article, you will find common AI markers that AI checkers use to report your texts. By the end of the reading, you will know precisely what to look for in AI-checking.
How to Rewrite AI- Generated Text
Written by
Catherine B.
Published on
Mar 31, 2025
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ChatGPT breaks complex concepts into digestible bits for you; it can rephrase sentences and replace a few grammar checkers.
It is a powerful tool, but it still cannot write human-like, though. So, how to rewrite AI-generated text to human-ish?
The short answer to rewriting AI-generated content is to learn common AI markers, collect the examples, practice rewriting them to a human-sounding version, and prompt AI tools to avoid making the same mistakes the next time.
In this article, StudyPro has collected AI markers, practical fixing examples, and AI humanizing techniques to aid you with everything needed for rewriting robotic texts.
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How to Detect AI Writing: Signs of AI-Generated Text and Common Patterns

So, what are the common characteristics of AI-generated text, and how do you detect AI? There are 13 most prominent giveaways of artificial text:
  1. Repetitive sentence structures
  2. Formal and overly neutral language
  3. Overuse of vague, abstract words
  4. Fancy words and unnecessary superlatives
  5. Nominalization
  6. Overuse of gerund forms
  7. Robotic, wordy phrasing
  8. Overuse of filler words
  9. AI failing to mimic human touch
  10. . Lack of nuanced analysis and interpretation
  11. . Lack of personality
  12. . Originality issues
  13. . Repetitive, odd transitions
Let’s see the examples of each of these telltale signs of AI-generated text.
Type of problem
AI marker
Examples
Clarity and readability issue
  • Repetitive sentence structures
  • Formal and overly neutral language
  • Overuse of vague, abstract terms
  • Fancy pretentious words and unnecessary superlatives
  • Nominalization
  1. “X is a crucial…,” “not only… but also…,” “to do x… and y,” "exhibits the need for…,” “requires a comprehensive…,” “x does y, improving the a and b,”
  2. "One might consider", "It could be argued that", "A potential perspective suggests"
  3. Paradigm, framework, ecosystem, methodology, leveraging, a full grasp, enriched, tailored
  4. Extraordinarily, intrinsically, sophisticated, critical, indispensable, remarkable
  5. A significant limitation is the absence of an authentic "human touch".
Paraphrasing and monotony issue
  • Overuse of gerund forms
  • Clichés
  • Overuse of filler words
  1. “Ensuring smooth transitions is…,” “improving originality requires,” “while also using,” sharing personal stories helps to…, demonstrating a…”
  2. Remarkable efficiency, human intervention, key factors, at the end of the day, several key strengths, a valuable asset, demonstrates proficiency, enabling broader positive impact
  3. Actually, essentially, fundamentally, basically, moreover, however, nevertheless
Depth and nuance issue
  • AI mimicking humanity
  • Lack of nuanced analysis and interpretation
  1. AI’ attempts to add emotional connection that often sound unnatural and weird
  2. Analytical AI-generated points that rephrase the sources text rather than actually analyze its implications
Originality and tone of voice issues
  • Lack of personality
  • Originality issues
  • Lack of natural idea flow
  1. Lack of examples, relatable human experiences, personal stories, and emotional connection
  2. AI-generated content that is copy of copy, a generalized middle ground made of the original ideas
  3. Repetitive wordy transitions, like “To summarize these characteristics,” “A frequent issue is,"

How to Rewrite AI-Generated Text: Core Techniques

The question of how to rewrite AI-generated text comes right after establishing the signs of AI generation.
So, before you start reading this article, here is an easy check-list of how you can benefit from the information in the best way:
✔️ Save the table of the 13 most common signs of AI. Print it if you can for easy access
✔️ Do not work through all steps in one step. It’s a lot, and you will get bored and tired.
✔️ Instead, plan how you will use this unique information.
✔️ Set some time to actually go through the AI signs and ways to fix them
✔️ Feed the signs to AI and prompt it to avoid these patterns when writing your next tasks
✔️ Use the AI paragraph rewriter tool alongside the tips
💡 This article can be another bookmark in your Google bookmarks tab, saved for later. If you treat it as such, you will most likely forget about it, like you forgot the others. Or, it can be a start to your responsible information management.

How to Improve Clarity and Readability of AI-Generated Text

  • Text clarity measures how precisely your readers catch your intended meaning. Imagine you are drawing a square, but the corners are so smoothed that it looks a bit like a circle. With clearly written text, readers can always tell “a square” from “a circle.”
  • Readability indicates how hard it is for the reader to move through your writing. Does reading resemble clambering through the dense bushwhack? Or is it like walking a spacy well-lid road?
You need to know how to humanize AI content as it often feels like clambering through the bushwhack without a tell for the right and the left. A good grammar checker can surely help with that, but only if you know what to look for.

Fix Repetitive Sentence Structures

Repetitive AI sentences are those odd structures where you can’t precisely retell the meaning by the end of the line.
Repetitiveness creates brain fog for the reader and blurs the meaning. Such structures usually overuse:
  • Wordy phrases
  • Passive voice
  • Abstract terms
  • Parallel structures
  • Subordinate clauses, especially gerund and infinitive ones
  • Mixing all four structures listed above a few times per paragraph
Let’s see an example of one and its improved version:
AI-written example
Human-written example
Developing strong writing skills, refining analytical thinking, and enhancing problem-solving abilities are essential for succeeding in academic and professional settings.
If you want to succeed in academics and career, you will need three things. Develop your writing skills, practice problem-solving, and try to think analytically.
What was wrong? Developing, refining, enhancing, and succeeding are all abstract verbs and gerund forms. Each one separately creates no tangible picture for readers. Altogether, they make the sentence hard to read.

Replace Formal and Overly Neutral Language

Formal language refers to the part of the vocabulary used in professional or official settings.
There are a few linguistic categories that make it formal:
  • Technical, precise terms
  • Polite and respectful expressions
  • Neutral, impersonal language
  • More formal word alternatives
Formal language is not inherently wrong. It helps to transfer ideas with precision in formal settings and showcase the writer’s professionalism. However, you can easily overuse it, and AI often does.
AI-written example
Human-written example
AI may use repetitive transition words to enhance coherence, maintain readability, and ensure a seamless, unified flow of information.
AI tools use transition words to make the text more coherent, readable, and smooth. However, they cannot be creative just yet, making transitions repetitive.
What was wrong? The AI-written sample used the phrase “may use,” which doesn’t sound sure. Also, “enhance,” “maintain,” and “ensure” are common formal verb alternatives to “improve” or “make more…”. The AI-generated sentence sounds formal but also artificial.
💡 Do you know how the official state or corporate speech often sounds? You can hear jargons like “these action items need to be completed for improved performance.” The same issue applies to AI. It sounds presentable, but you have no idea what it means.

Check the Text for Vague Abstract Words

Abstract words name the actions or objects that are not physical. You cannot touch the thing, but you can understand the idea of doing or having a thing.
These words become an AI-check problem when overused. Here are some of the most common examples of AI-written vague words for different parts of speech:
Part of speech
Common AI-written abstract words
Nouns
Approach, framework, methodology, implementation, optimization, capability, functionality, strategy, process, perspective, initiative, insight, parameter, solution, paradigm, structure, alignment
Verbs
Enhance, ensure, maintain, demonstrate, align, tailor, verify, disclose, employ, tailor, consider, incorporate, utilize, refine
Adjectives
Comprehensive, strategic, effective, scalable, sustainable, adaptive, integrated, seamless, holistic, robust, optimized, data-driven, impactful, systematic, structured, efficient
Adverbs
Effectively, efficiently, seamlessly, strategically, holistically, comprehensively, optimally, significantly, substantially, consistently, systematically, progressively
You can still apply these words in your text. What makes them a marker of artificial intelligence use is the oversaturation. To differentiate between the two, ask yourself “Can I use a simpler word that still sounds professional?”
For example, in the sentence “The team worked diligently to tailor the software solution to meet the specific needs of the client.” you can use “develop” instead of “tailor” without losing the meaning.

Delete Fancy, Pretentious Passages

Pretentiousness in AI-generated text comes from the volume of training data it was training on.
Human writers sometimes use beautifully sounding phrases to “decorate” our speech. However, as AI learns from thousands of such casual examples, it learns to do the same, but without understanding the appropriate context.
AI-written example
Human-written example
The rise of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence in recent years has fundamentally altered the landscape of content creation.
The content creation game has fundamentally changed since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.
What was wrong? Nobody says phrases like “has fundamentally altered the landscape” in casual speaking or writing. It sounds unnatural and wordy.

Replace Unnecessary Nouns With Verbs

When AI excessively uses nouns instead of verbs, it’s called nominalization.
Normally, there are two main cases to use nominalization:
  • To summarize complex ideas. For example, "Their analysis of the data revealed key insights." instead of "When they analyzed the data, they revealed key insights."
  • To focus on concept rather than action. If an academic paper explains a concept, it becomes more important than how the concept was made.
However, it’s easy to get used to nominalization and complex speech patterns to the point when you no longer realize you’re doing it. As AI practices on such writing samples, it picks up the same issues.
AI-written example
Human-written example
The utilization of resources in the optimization of performance is crucial.
Using resources effectively improves performance

How to Paraphrase AI Writing? AI Checkers and Monotony Explained

AI-generated text often struggles to deliver the diversity of sentence patterns and vocabulary choices into the text. The results sound monotonous and repetitive, making them easy to detect with AI checkers.
Here is an approximate example of how AI checkers work:
  • AI-checker training. Developers train AI detectors to track particular sequences of words and phrases. For example, count the number of gerund forms per paragraph.
  • Fine tuning. Then, they adjust the model with multiple other criteria to reach the most accuracy.
  • Checking your essays. Then, when you feed your assignment to an AI checker, it tells you how likely the text is AI-generated on the scale from “very unlikely” to “likely AI-generated”.
  • Quantity to quality. In fact, it only translated the internal data of “this is how many times I detected typical patterns” to “this is how likely it is human-written.”
That’s why AI checkers can slip up, too. Because you may be using the same patterns as the machine does, all on your own. That’s why you need to learn how to paraphrase or how to use an AI paraphrasing tool.

Think of Gerund Belonging in the Sentence

Gerunds (verb + -ing used as a noun) help us conceptualize things.
Imagine cavemen first using the word “to dig” and then conceptualizing a process of “digging.”
Gerund forms enrich the variety of language, helping us to talk about something both as an action and as a concept to our liking. But the variety is the key, and the oversaturation of gerund forms starts to sound robotic.
AI-written example
Human-written example
From drafting articles and crafting social media posts to generating marketing copy, AI tools offer unprecedented efficiency in producing large volumes of text and ensuring its quality.
AI tools are efficient in multiple tasks. They can craft articles, social media posts, marketing copy, and large text volumes without losing quality.
What was wrong? The words “drafting,” “crafting,” “generating,”and "producing” are all synonyms. They deliver almost the same meaning. You can use just one verb and then list all types of texts AI performs.

Keep an Eye on Clichés

Clichés are repetitive phrases people use just out of habit, for hearing them many times and unconsciously dragging the same patterns into their own vocabulary.
Clichés are another bad writing habit AI adopts from human writing. For example, whenever you hear “the future of an x thing is here”, you roll your eyes and wish the author to show where precisely this “here” is. AI falls short of this mistake, too.
AI-written example
Human-written example
In today’s fast-paced world, businesses must adapt or be left behind.
Businesses must adapt or be left behind.
What was wrong? The world has been fast-paced for the last thirty years; it’s not like it became fast-paced just yesterday. Try to omit such common knowledge phrases, where possible.

Delete All Filler Words

Filler words are unnecessary words or phrases that do not add meaning or clarity to a sentence.
Actually, we basically use them when essentially, there is somewhat nothing we can really say.
AI-written example
AI-written example Human-written example
It is important to note that in order to improve efficiency, one must actually focus on optimizing workflows.
To improve efficiency, one must optimize workflows.
What was wrong? You are already noting something important in the sentence by simply writing it. There is no need to clarify the importance. “In order to” and “actually” hold no valuable meaning in this sentence.

How to Add Depth and Nuance to AI Writing? Experience-Based Techniques

One more way on how to make AI undetectable is adding depth, nuance, interesting hand-picked examples and arguments to your writing.
  • Depth of human writing is everything that makes the reader feel “there is more to this than presented” through your writing.
  • Nuance in writing refers to understanding subtle concepts and implications of any concept.
Here are short examples of both:
Category
AI-written example
Human-written example
Commentary
Depth
Platforms like ChatGPT have made AI writing accessible to a broad audience.
ChatGPT was the first retrieval-augmentation platform accessible to the public. Before, such developments were private corporate property.
The human-written example adds context to why broad public access is important. It adds the before-after perspective.
Nuance
AI can also generate content at scale, making it ideal for tasks requiring high volumes of text.
AI generates content on scale; as a business owner you may need this quality to stay ahead of the marketing demand.
Stating that AI is ideal for high-volume tasks is a general idea. It holds little nuance and value. But specifying exactly how this quality helps business owners is more insightful.
But how do you achieve that level of depth and nuance in AI-written text? Below, you will find a few useful techniques.

Don’t Let AI Mimick Human Nuances

When you prompt AI to add nuance and insights into writing, it tries to perform the task. Unfortunately, it doesn’t yet have the capacity to do so.
💡 Currently, AI tools can summarize and rephrase information, mimicking the depth and contextuality of a human. It can’t yet make true genuine connections between facts and conclusions.
So, here’s what you do to humanize the insights of AI-generated ideas:
  1. Review the generated text. What points seem the most promising? Is there something you know very well or have a strong opinion about?
  2. Draft your own reflections. If you were talking to a friend about the topic, what would you discuss?
  3. Contextual layering. Take one claim from the AI generation. Then ask, “So what?”. What does this idea imply? What are the consequences for the world? 4. Keep asking until you feel genuine excitement about the implications.
5. Searching for particular names. As you think of implications, are there any specific terms, brand names, or authority figures that come to mind? For example, for an AI topic, it’s researching what’s new with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and their CEOs.

Do Your Analysis Beforehand

After you have the AI-generated text and before you start editing it, do this:
  1. Search for credible sources. You can even ask AI who the industry top figures are to take insights from.
  2. Search for trends. Maybe google “the topic name news” for the most recent updates.
  3. Extract a few citations. This way, you will have the hot takes on the industry or topic you are writing about.
  4. Combine AI-generated text with your findings. Now, you have the basic structure for writing, which is your AI-drafted sketch. And you also have deep insights, all in few minutes. All it takes now is smoothly integrating the two.

How to Develop Tone of Voice? Examples of ToV and Human Touch

What is the tone of voice? How do you develop your unique voice in writing?
The tone of voice is a unique author’s personality reflected in their writing through a few tonality lenses:
  • Formal/informal
  • Serious/ casual or funny
  • Neutral/ optimistic/skeptical
  • Authoritative/ modest
  • Calm/energetic
These characteristics are the dots on the spectrum. Imagine it like a color palette — there are hundreds of subtle tones. For example, your unique tone of voice may belong to the purple chromatic, but have a higher red or blue percentage, differentiating you from all other “purples.”
Rewriting AI-generated text requires you to learn your specific voice tonality. Here are three components you will need to develop your ToV.

Know Your Personality

The AI-generated text has no persona. It is automatic, robotic, and unoriginal by default, and that’s why it’s so distinctive. Instead, you, as a personality, possess multiple dimensions and angles of personality:
  • Emotional complexity
  • Unique thought patterns
  • Your cultural and personal context
  • Your imperfections and most authentic behaviors
  • The voice of your inner dialogue
  • Personal growth narratives you tell about yourself
  • Your interests, sparks of curiosity, and joy
These key points form your writing manner, which is distinct even if you write alongside ten other people about the same ideas.
💡 Try rephrasing everything AI writes in your own words. Go through the rewritten text and notice the differences. What had suddenly made the same content sound more like yourself?

Free-Write Your Thoughts

The AI algorithm collects data entries from multiple platforms and crafts something in the middle ground. That’s why you need to deal with:
  • Awkward phrasing
  • Ethical considerations
  • Unintentional plagiarism
  • And lack of deep understanding of the topic in AI texts.
Because everything coming from AI is a rewritten version of something said before. Instead, it’s impossible to precisely repeat someone when you free-write your ideas in your own words and writing style.
How to Rewrite AI- Generated Text

Work on Smooth Idea Flow

The characteristic of original authorship is a unique stylistic signature of how the author delivers the thoughts. For example, your writing style can be:
  • Logical. Each original paragraph follows the strict order of thesis-argument-example-and conclusion structure.
  • Minimalistic. Your sentences are only as long as needed; you avoid excessiveness and descriptions. Your ideas are briefly presented but clear.
  • Casual. Even in official style writing, you refuse to use overly complicated structures. Your idea flow feels more natural and conversational.
Depending on your preferred style of working with ideas, your text flow may also sound differently. Here are some examples:
Personal style
Examples of transitions
Logical
“This evidence supports…,” “"Furthermore, the data demonstrates…," “As a result…”
Minimalistic
“Here are the key points…,” “First…,” “Thus…”
Casual
“Now,…,” “It means that…,” “That is why…”

How to Do Fact Checking After AI Generation?

Finally, the last method to rewrite existing content generated with AI is to eliminate all its inaccuracies. The best steps to check AI plagiarism and accuracy are as follows:
  • Clear understanding. Use your own preexisting knowledge and search for a few more sources. Are there any inconsistencies in AI writing and your findings?
  • Asking AI for sources. Chat GPT, Claude, and Gemini can currently access and scan the web (as of March 2025). You can prompt the model to show where the data comes from.
  • Checking the reliability. It’s best to use research papers, original content with clear authorship, and scan search engines for any mentions of the topic from industry experts.
  • Cross-referencing AI-generated text. To save time searching for sources, try this guide on how to use AI for studying.

Benefits and Drawbacks of AI for Students

Artificial intelligence helps students to streamline their repetitive, tedious tasks and overcome a lack of ideas or clarity. At the same time, AI in education threatens students’ commitment to studying earnestly.
But let’s see more practical examples of the benefits and drawbacks of AI in academic settings:
Benefits
Drawbacks
Starting a task
AI helps you overcome writer’s block. No more crying because you have no ideas for the paper due tomorrow.
Academic integrity
Overuse of AI gets caught, and you will face the consequences.
Access to data
AI can teach you more general info than any human being on the planet.
Access to data
OpenAI, Google, and Autropic can access everything you share with Chat GPT, Gemini, and Claude, respectively.
Analytical skills
AI can analyze and scan through any input data sets tenfold faster than you can.
Job displacement
Unless your analytical and creative skills are tenfold better than those of AI and employees working with AI, you’re at risk.
Perfect streamlining capacity
AI is most suited for repetitive tasks that can be explained once and automated.
Lack of depth
AI will not teach you industry insights and breakthroughs for your field.
Lower costs, compared to human
Free AI workforce steps in for multiple tasks you cannot afford to delegate, like personal manager tasks.
Still high cost
You are still paying with higher security risks instead of money.
💡 A funny observation: you save time writing with AI. Nevertheless, you later spend the same amount of time searching how to make AI-generated text more human.

Sum Up

Knowing how to rewrite the text after AI is knowing how precisely AI struggles with abstractions, repetitions, nominalization, and gerund forms. Paragraph rewriter tools are not magical: they simply count the number of AI markers listed in this article.
As soon as you optimize your writing process by applying these tips, you will never get caught using AI again.
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Frequently asked questions

To rewrite AI generated text, first learn these 13 markers of AI written content:
  1. Repetitive sentence structures
  2. Formal and overly neutral language
  3. Overuse of vague abstract words
  4. Fancy words and unnecessary superlatives
  5. Nominalization
  6. Overuse of gerund forms
  7. Robotic, wordy phrasing
  8. Overuse of filler words
  9. AI failing to mimic human touch
  10. . Lack of nuanced analysis and interpretation
  11. . Lack of personality
  12. . Originality issues
  13. . Repetitive language and transitions
Yes, AI paraphrasing can be detected if the rewritten content still includes the examples of the main 13 AI markers. AI detectors do not react to text being rewritten by another tool but to the presence of typical AI telltales.
If you use any free paragraph rewriter tool and apply the tips from this article wisely, you will not get caught. Key steps to passing AI detection are going a few times through the text and making sure you’ve eliminated all AI signs.
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