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January 22, 2026
This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human
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TL;DR
- A new tool named Humanizer aims to make AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text.
- Humanizer was created by feeding Anthropic's Claude Wikipedia's list of tells for detecting AI-generated content.
- These 'tells' include vague attributions, promotional language, and collaborative phrases.
- The tool is designed to remove these signs of AI writing, making the text sound more natural.
- Examples show Humanizer changing descriptive sentences and vague attributions to sound more human.
- The tool will automatically update when Wikipedia's AI-detecting guide is updated.
- AI companies like OpenAI are also adjusting their chatbots to address common AI writing indicators like overuse of em dashes.