How to Make AI-Assisted Posts Sound Human

AI can help you write faster. It can also make you sound like everyone else on the feed. Readers have learned the tells, and once they spot them, they stop trusting the post, even if the idea underneath is good.

The fix isn’t to avoid AI. It is to give it your material and keep the patterns out.

The patterns that give it away

These show up again and again in machine-written posts:

• Empty intensifiers: “truly”, “incredibly”, “game-changing”, “unlock”, “elevate”.
• Tidy triplets: three adjectives or three short clauses in a row, every time.
• The “it’s not X, it’s Y” move, repeated until it means nothing.
• Stock openers: “In today’s fast-paced world”, “Let’s dive in”, “Here’s the thing”.
• Hedged everything: no opinion strong enough to disagree with.
• No specifics: no names, numbers, places or moments, because the model doesn’t know them.

One of these on its own is harmless. Several in a post and readers feel it, even if they can’t say why.

Start from material only you have

The biggest difference between a generic post and a good one is material: the story, the number, the mistake, the opinion. AI can’t invent those honestly. So before you ask for a draft, write down:

1. What happened? A specific moment, project or conversation.
2. What changed? The result, with a number if you have one.
3. What do you think? Your opinion, including where you disagree with common advice.
4. Who is it for? The reader you want to stop scrolling.

Give the AI those answers and ask it to shape them. The draft will be about something real.

Teach it your voice

Collect five to ten posts you are proud of and use them as the reference for tone: how long your sentences are, how formal you are, whether you use humour, how you open and close. A voice description built from your own writing keeps drafts closer to how you actually sound.

Keep a swipe file too: lines you like, phrases your audience uses, quotes you return to. Pulling from your own collection is more personal than anything a model generates from scratch.

Edit with a checklist

When the draft comes back:

• Delete every word from the list of empty intensifiers.
• Break up any run of three.
• Replace one general statement with a specific example.
• Read it aloud. If you wouldn’t say it, rewrite it.
• Make sure there is at least one sentence someone could disagree with.

Let a tool flag the patterns

It is hard to see these patterns in your own draft, especially after editing it a few times. Adsplate’s human-voice check highlights AI-sounding phrasing as you write, with a suggested fix for each, and its writing assistant asks for your material before drafting anything. You stay the author; the tool just helps you sound like yourself.