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Why AI writing sounds like AI, how to spot it, and how to make your drafts sound like a person wrote them. Backed by our own data on 7,554 AI rewrites from ten 2026 models.

Guides Why AI writing sounds like AI, and how to make it sound human What gives AI drafts away in 2026, what a prompt can and can't fix, and how to get writing people read as yours. Guides "It's not X, it's Y": why AI loves this sentence (and what to write instead) The setup-and-reveal sentence that shows up in every AI LinkedIn post, why models write it, and ten ways to say the same thing better. Guides Does Google penalize AI content? What Google's own documentation says, the 2026 spam and core updates, Ahrefs' 331K-page study, and a checklist for teams publishing AI-assisted content. Guides How to add a humanizer to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code (MCP setup) One page, every client: the command or menu path for each agent, how sign-in works, and what to do when it doesn't connect. Guides How to make ChatGPT sound more human: prompts that work, and where they stop A custom instructions block you can paste today, why each line is there, and the point where no prompt will help. Guides How to make Claude write like a human: styles, skills and Claude Code Claude has its own tells, and most advice written for ChatGPT misses them. Here's what to change, and where to put the change. Guides How to tell if something was written by AI, without a detector A 60-second check for emails, LinkedIn posts, cover letters and reports, and why no single sign proves anything. Guides Signs of AI writing: the 2026 list What gives AI writing away now, what stopped working, and a list you can paste into your agent's instructions. Updated every quarter. Guides What is AI slop? The 2025 word of the year, what it looks like in each channel, and a five-minute check before you publish. Guides Why does ChatGPT use so many em dashes? We counted the em dashes in 7,554 AI rewrites from ten 2026 models and 1,177 drafts four models wrote from scratch. Here's what we found, why it happens, and how to stop it. Guides Why your AI can't fix its own writing Mode collapse, explained in plain English, with data on what AI does when it polishes human writing and when it writes from scratch. Guides Words and phrases AI overuses, and what to write instead A ranked list from 7,554 AI rewrites and 1,177 drafts AI wrote from scratch, with how much more often AI used each word than people did and what to use instead. Research The AI writing tells of 2026: what changed, in 7,554 rewrites and 1,177 drafts We had 2026 models polish thousands of passages people wrote, and write over a thousand pieces from scratch, then counted what the models added. The famous tells are gone. Quieter ones replaced them.