Diagnose & Fix
Why Your Writing Sounds Like AI — and How to Fix It
The tells are concrete and fixable: stock vocabulary, uniform rhythm, empty hedging, over-signposted structure. Run the checklist, rewrite the flagged lines, add the specifics only you know. No detector-evasion tricks — just better prose.
The 60-second checklist
Five patterns that make text read as machine output
1) Stock inflation: delve, tapestry, testament, crucial, 'in today's rapidly evolving landscape'. 2) Uniform rhythm: every sentence 15-20 words, every paragraph three sentences. 3) Empty hedging: 'it is important to note', 'results may vary', claims with no numbers. 4) Over-signposting: moreover / furthermore / additionally chaining, conclusions that restate the intro. 5) Detail vacuum: 'various factors' and 'certain advantages' where a human would name one.
See the difference
The same content, before and after removing the tells — note that every fix adds a specific, not just swaps words.
02·Practical use cases
Who needs the 'sounds like AI' check
Students
An essay you genuinely wrote (or heavily edited from a draft) reads suspiciously smooth and formulaic.
Spot the concrete patterns — uniform sentence length, hedging fillers, stock vocabulary — and fix them line by line.
Job applicants
Cover letters polished with AI all sound the same to recruiters who read hundreds.
Replace generic connective tissue with specific facts from your own experience — the one thing AI can't add.
Content writers
Clients now paste drafts into detectors and bounce anything that 'feels generated'.
A pre-delivery pass that removes the tells while keeping your meaning and structure intact.
Non-native English writers
Careful, textbook-correct English often trips the same pattern-matching as AI text.
Learn which 'correct but stiff' constructions read as machine output and how to loosen them honestly.
03·How it works
Diagnose, then rewrite
Scan your draft against the patterns on this page: stock vocabulary, uniform rhythm, empty hedging, over-signposted structure and detail-free generality.
The tells cluster — usually in intros, conclusions and transitions. Most body paragraphs with real facts in them are fine.
Paste a flagged passage and pick a style — Standard, Formal, Simple, Creative or Academic. Short rewrites cost 1✦, longer structural ones 2✦.
Specific numbers, named tools, dates, first-person observations. Specificity is the strongest 'human' signal there is — no rewriter can fake it for you.
04·Same tool · in Telegram
Telegram
Fix flagged passages in Telegram
@vustRephraseBot · Open @vustRephraseBot, paste the sentence or paragraph, choose one of five styles, get a rewrite in seconds — from 1✦ per pass.
05·Quality & trust
The ethical line
This is not detector evasion
The goal is prose that IS more human — specific, varied, honest — not prose that merely scores differently. We don't promise any detector outcome, and academic-integrity rules at your institution still apply to how you use AI at all.
Detectors misfire; patterns don't lie
AI detectors produce false positives, especially on non-native and heavily edited text. The patterns on this page are useful precisely because they're about readable, credible writing — worth fixing whether or not a detector is involved.
Two tools, two jobs
@vustRephraseBot restyles a passage you point at. The Humanizer bot does a deeper naturalness pass over a whole draft. Start with rephrase for surgical edits; use the Humanizer when the entire text needs loosening.
Frequently asked questions
Ready when you are
Make it sound like you wrote it — because you did.
Use the checklist to find the tells, rewrite the flagged lines, and add the specifics only you know.