humanize-textlisted

# Humanize Text Take a draft that reads as machine-generated and rewrite it so it reads like a person with a point of view wrote it. Humanness comes from three things — **rhythm** (uneven sentence lengths, the odd fragment), **specificity** (real names, numbers, examples instead of abstractions), and **a stance** (an opinion, some friction, a thing the writer actually cares about). It does *not* come from adding typos or forced slang. Fix the writing; don't fake the human. This is a **quality** operation, not a disguise. See the honesty note before you start. ## The honest goal (read first) The aim is prose that doesn't read as generic AI, because generic AI prose is *bad writing* — vague, over-hedged, weightless. The aim is **not** to defeat AI-detection tools (they're unreliable in both directions), and **not** to pass AI-written work off as human where disclosure is required or the rules forbid it (academic submissions, contexts where authorship is certified). If the user's goal is to launder undisclosed AI work past an integrity policy, say so plainly and decline that framing — you can still help them *write better*. Everywhere else — their own LinkedIn post, blog, email, cover letter, docs — improving the prose is exactly the job. ## Step 1 — Pin the target voice and constraints Do this before rewriting a word. Getting the voice wrong is worse than the AI tells, because it misrepresents the author. 1. **Whose voice?** Ask for (or find) a **sample of the author's r