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Run an AI-tell audit without rewriting

✍️ WritingClaudeBeginner★ Popular#Remove AI tells

Task · Remove AI tells
Time saved · 10 min per piece (estimate, not measured)

Steps

  1. Open Claude in a new chat
  2. Paste the prompt and fill in the [brackets]
  3. Paste your text or details where shown
  4. Read the result, push back on anything off, and edit before you use it

Prompt / template

Act as an editor checking whether this text sounds machine-written. Do NOT rewrite it.
Go through it and list each AI tell you find as a table: quote | type of tell | why it reads as AI | a plainer alternative.
Types to look for: inflated significance, stock AI vocabulary, "not just X but Y", forced lists of three, vague attributions, generic conclusions, needless bold/emoji/headings, chatty asides to the reader, and every sentence being the same length.
End with a score from 1 (sounds human) to 5 (obviously AI) and the 3 fixes that would help most.
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Source · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
Last checked · 2026-10-19

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