As a new user to Milyin, I wrote my first article yesterday and submitted it after a quick proof-reading. Exactly after 30 minutes, I got an email saying my article got deleted because it was AI generated. I was shocked because I have never ever used any AI tool to write an article! Perhaps there was a mistake in their automated check? My first impulse was to raise an appeal as described in their email.
What I did next?
Then I thought, why not verify it for myself. I immediately googled the best AI detection tools available online. There were too many of them listed, so I went ahead with a few suggestions that appeared to be free and didn’t need me to sign up.
The first two were GPTZero and Quillbot which showed that my post was 0% AI generated. Aha! I quickly captured the screenshot, getting ready to send my appeal. Then I decided to try Scribbr and I was astonished. The results said that my article was 67% AI generated. What!! Do I really write like a machine? Or do AI detectors simply flag anything that appears to be perfectly written? 😉
Jokes apart, I tried out three more AI detection tools. All of them reported varying degrees of AI content. I started to wonder – what was I doing wrong? I went back to some of my older articles on other websites and did AI checks on a few of those. Strangely, all my posts on film reviews reported lower AI content of 30% or less. But any general topics got flagged as greater than 70% AI generated.
The difference was that all my movie reviews had some sort of mild emotion in them, excitement, dislike, disgust, whatever. I wrote those reviews with genuine passion, purely based on my personal experience. Obviously, they sounded less robotic and more human-like.
Moment of enlightenment
As content writers, we tend to get most research materials online. Then we attempt to write on such topics. Unsurprisingly, that online research work heavily influences our choice of words. Not to mention that school curriculum has always trained us in writing essays in the third person. How much of creative writing did we really get in our exams? Same for jobs, all work emails have to sound super formal and precise, with bulleted text to make it readable.
That was my moment of realization – that I have been writing like a robot throughout my life. The chaos of human thinking is missing in my writing. I just cannot work up the passion unless it’s a topic I’m mad about.
Lessons learnt
If you are writing for websites that have strict policies against AI content:
- Try to write only on those things that you are absolutely passionate about, whether or not you are a seasoned writer. You will automatically write from your heart.
- Validate you content on multiple AI detectors to identify robotic writing. Edit the content till you get it right.
- Try to break free from your usual writing style once in a while. This will make you more versatile as a writer.
- Write in the first person rather than third person and narrate your own experiences, that humanizes the tone.
If you are wondering, I did check this very article on AI detectors, even though I wrote them from scratch.
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