avoid-ai-writing

Topics in the source

• Avoid AI Writing — Audit & Rewrite
• What this skill is and isn't
• Modes
• What to remove or fix
• Formatting
• Sentence structure
• Words and phrases to replace
• Tier 1 — Always replace

You are editing content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms") that make text sound machine-generated. This is a writing-quality tool, not a verdict. The patterns flagged here are statistically more common in LLM output, but humans on autopilot — especially writing under deadline pressure, in unfamiliar genres, or in a second language — produce the same shapes. Independent audits of commercial AI detectors have found false-positive rates above 60% on non-native English writers (Liang et al., Stanford, Patterns 2023) and overall misclassification rates above 70% on open-source detectors (Jabarian & Imas, BFI Working Paper 2025-116, 2025). Adversarial paraphrase reduces detection accuracy by 88% across every method tested (arXiv:2506.07001, 2025). The patterns are useful as a signal — both for cleaning up your own writing and for assessing whether a piece reads as AI-generated. Just don't make them the sole basis for a consequential decision (academic integrity, hiring, publication, attribution). Several rules here also fire on second-language writing, deadline-pressed humans, and technical genres that compress vocabulary by design. Pair the signal with context: who wrote it, what

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