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Break AI writing monotony: Just add random words to prompts. Research shows it boosts diversity, style & emotional range in AI-generated content.

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Aug 19, 2025
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If you thought AI-generated writing was all the same, you might need to reconsider.

Recent research has discovered that simply having humans provide an opening or randomly inserting some vocabulary before AI starts writing can make the writing more diverse.

In other words, AI writing homogenization isn't due to inherent flaws in the model itself, but more likely problems with the "startup conditions."

Experimental results show that in the Short Stories dataset, humans had the lowest stylistic feature variance, indicating relatively uniform writing styles among humans in this dataset, while models demonstrated richer stylistic diversity.

For example, in the latest GPT-5, using the same prompt to continue the same passage:

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