How to avoid getting flagged by AI checkers

Businesses and schools use AI checkers to ensure employees and students create their own content. Unfortunately, those tools are prone to errors. 

At the time of this writing, there are no AI detection tools with 100% accuracy. Meaning, they can consider your original content as AI writing. 

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Follow these tips to avoid triggering AI checkers at work or school.

5 ways to avoid AI detection in writing

Search engine optimization platform SurferSEO and AI writing tool Writesonic recommend the following to avoid AI checkers:

1. Rephrase sentence structure and format: Use a combination of short and long sentences and vary their structures. AI tends to use the same length and format.
2. Use synonyms: AI tends to repeat the same words, so replace some of yours with similar ones. For example, replace the word “cold” with “frigid.” 
3. Try text humanizers. Also known as anti-AI detector tools, these platforms edit your content to make it less likely to trigger AI checkers. One example is SurferSEO’s free AI Humanizer tool and Stealthly AI.
4. Share anecdotes and perspectives: Add real-life examples to your content as AI struggles to replicate those features.
5. Use paraphrasing tools: Grammarly, Quilbot and similar tools can rewrite your content to avoid AI checkers.

Skip editing your content against AI flagging by avoiding these characteristics while writing: 

1. Sentence predictability: As mentioned, AI tends to be overly precise and slightly robotic. 
2. Burstiness: Writesonic says using short and long sentences creates a rhythm that AI-generated text struggles to match.
3. Repetitive patterns: Sometimes, AI models repeat phrases and ideas, which AI checkers can detect. That’s why the tips above recommend sharing personal stories.

You may use this article as an example if you’re struggling to avoid AI detection in writing. 

The image above shows the popular AI detector Copyleaks, which found no traces of AI-generated content.

Note that even the latest AI checkers can still yield false positives. In other words, they can mistake wholly manmade content for AI-generated ones. 

Moreover, you can bypass these AI detection tools. Learn more from this guide.