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The Biggest Secret of AI Writing: Reclaiming Your Voice

The Biggest Secret of AI Writing: Reclaiming Your Voice

Discover AI writing's biggest secret: stop chasing perfect prompts. Learn why writing drafts first beats complex commands for authentic content.

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Jul 05, 2025
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Discussing AI writing now feels somewhat uninspiring: prompts are increasingly becoming like incantations, more and more like mysterious, inscrutable mystical techniques.

This makes the process of using AI to write anything—regardless of the type of text—resemble performing rituals: gambling on whether the commands can trigger good generation. Meanwhile, you need a large number of instructions to remove the "AI flavor."

Key Strategies

1. Adjusting Content Tone and Approaching Authentic Expression

  • Set clear identity and scenarios, having AI simulate expressions under specific identities or scenarios

  • Specify tone and emotional coloring, adding emotional tendencies or colloquial vocabulary

2. Breaking Template Structures

  • Avoid commonly used logical vocabulary like "first/second/in conclusion" and other structural words

  • Flexible sentence patterns and rhythm—AI tends toward neat parallelisms or long sentences; you can request diversified short intersections

3. Injecting Details and Personality

  • Add specific cases and stories, requiring the inclusion of real cases or fictional but reasonable plots

  • Incorporate subjective viewpoints and positions—AI tends toward neutrality, while human expression often has preferences

4. Advanced Language Style Optimization

  • Mimic the flawed language of human writers, adding colloquial elements or occasional repetitive corrections

  • Specify avoiding AI high-frequency vocabulary—AI commonly uses expressions like "it's worth noting," which should be avoided

5. Post-Processing Polishing Techniques

  • Manually add "imperfect" elements, replacing some vocabulary with more everyday expressions

  • AI-assisted de-AI-ification, using reverse prompts to have AI self-polish

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