How to Rewrite ChatGPT Content to Avoid AI Detection (2026 Guide)

You stare at a blank screen, waiting for some divine inspiration, and it never comes. Eventually, the moment comes when you decide to "just use ChatGPT as a starting point". You type your question and it magically creates over 1000 words of perfect text. It's well written, grammatically correct... but has no soul, no human touch.

Lately more and more text you come across has these telltale hints that make you feel like there's something missing, making them boring and uncaptivating.

This doesn't mean that we can't use AI to help us generate content, though! It can research, generate a starting text and help us improve the final product. If we edit the output.

1. Remove the "Polite" Introductions

AI is obsessed with being helpful and neutral. It starts every piece with a variation of "In today's fast-paced digital world, dog training is an essential skill for pet owners."

We don't talk like that. Humans start in the middle of the action. If I’m writing about dog training, I’m not starting with a definition of a dog. I’m starting with the time my Golden Retriever ate a hole through my drywall because I didn't exercise him enough.

The best first step is then to simply delete the first paragraph ChatGPT gives you. Instead, start your text with the problem at hand, or a question, or even with an introductory story.

2. The Vocabulary purge

After reading a few texts produced by ChatGPT you'll notice that it has a favorite vocabulary list. Being trained in so many academic articles and over-polished texts, it developed a love for words that feel like filler. If your text contains the words delve, tapestry, underscore, or testament, get rid of them. These are generally some of the hints anyone would immediately catch to mean that a text was AI generated.

Use the "Bar Test". If you wouldn't say the sentence to a friend at a bar, don't write it.

• AI: "This tool facilitates the optimization of workflow."

• Human: "This tool makes you work faster."

3. Break the Rhythm

AI writes with a consistent, hypnotic rhythm. Its heuristics are built around the idea that sentences should always be balanced. If sentence A has 15 words, sentences B and C will most likely have 14 to 16 words. Reading something as methodic as that will make anyone fall asleep.

Humans are messy. We write short sentences. Really short. And then, when we get excited or passionate about a specific point, we let the sentence run on for three lines because we are trying to get all the information out before we lose the train of thought.

That is burstiness.

You need to manually chop up the text. Take a long, complex sentence and smash it into three fragments. Then take two short sentences and glue them together with an "and" or a "but."

4. Inject "Unnecessary" Opinions

AI is trained to never make a wrong statement. To achieve this, it simply hedges everything. It uses phrases like "It is generally considered" or "Some experts say" or "It is important to remember"

In a human text, biases are almost impossible to not be present. You have to be a little bit arrogant. If you are reviewing a product, don't say "It has pros and cons", say "The battery life is terrible, but the camera is worth it"

Adding details about struggles, preferences and outright sidedness makes your writing more real and human.

5. Remove the "Summary" Conclusion

In almost every text it writes, AI will include a final summary. It will almost always start with "In conclusion" or "Ultimately" and then just repeat everything that was just written in the previous paragraphs.

If I just read your article, I know what it was about. I don't need a recap. End with a call to action or a final thought that adds value. Tell them what to do next. Don't just fade to black.

Conclusion (see what I did there?)

The most important point to keep in mind is that today, it is still impossible to automate creativity. It is a human characteristic that is extremely difficult to mimic. Using AI can have its benefits though. Use it to do the research, build the outline, or fix your grammar but don't let it be the one writing replacing your voice.