humanize

# humanize · 人間 **人間 · にんげん** — "human being". Makes AI-generated text sound like a real person wrote it. Based on research from: Grammarly, MIT Technology Review, GPTZero, QuillBot, Reddit (r/auscorp, r/cybersecurity), Hacker News, Stack Overflow, JustDone, print-css.rocks, BrowserStack, pdf4.dev benchmarks, and professional writing guides (2024–2026). --- ## Core metrics AI detectors measure | Metric | What it means | Human text | AI text | |--------|---------------|------------|---------| | **Perplexity** | How predictable each word is | High — uses unexpected words | Low — always picks the most probable word | | **Burstiness** | Variance in sentence length | High — mixes short/long sentences | Low — uniform sentence length | | **Word frequency** | Rate of common vs rare words | Balanced — uses uncommon terms | Skewed — overuses "the", "it", "is" | | **Repetition** | Recurring patterns | Low — natural variation | High — same structures repeat | Sources: GPTZero, QuillBot, MIT Technology Review, Google Brain research (Ippolito et al. 2020) --- ## The 16 AI tells (how to spot them) ### 1. Overused buzzwords (Grammarly 2026, Reddit) | AI word | Human alternative | |------------|-------------------| | delve into | analyze, explore, dig into | | pivotal | key, decisive, critical | | underscore | highlight, point out, stress | | multifaceted | complex, with several aspects | | landscape | ecosystem, context, situation | | paradigm | model, approach, framework | | robus...