My Writing Secret: How I Make ChatGPT Write like a Human [+1 Bonus Hack]

You are here for a purpose, so let us just cut through the fluff. You want your next essay, blog, article, to sound as human as possible, but you just don’t wish to write it yourself. Call for an AI humanizer, right? Not necessarily. Assuming it is for a noble purpose (bless my kind heart), let me walk you through the exact ways you can make AI write content like it has come straight from a super-skilled writer. Basically, humanized AI content using ChatGPT and other tools.

How ChatGPT Writes Content

To understand how we can humanize AI text, we first have to know why AI (ChatGPT in this case) writes how it writes. Most ChatGPT-style writing (not my ChatGPT for sure – and I’ll explain why later) follows a strangely mechanical rhythm. It’s clean, overly balanced, and sounds like it was written by someone who’s read too many textbooks and felt nothing while reading them. The tone is often too polite, the structure too predictable, and the phrasing too “correct” to feel human.

Why? Because typical AI writing plays it safe. It leans on familiar formats – intro, body, conclusion – and goes for phrases that are grammatically perfect but emotionally hollow. There’s no rawness, no tension, no lived experience. It rarely takes creative risks or throws in a quirky turn of phrase. Even when it tries to sound personal, it fumbles, simply because there is no real memory or emotion behind the words.

Humans, in contrast, are messy. We interrupt ourselves. We overcommit to silly metaphors, rant, joke, confess, contradict, and no matter how much we try, all this reflects in our writings.

So here is what makes a typical ChatGPT writing non-human and instantly identifiable –

• Overly structured, formulaic flow (intro-body-conclusion)
• Safe, neutral tone with no real emotional stakes
• Redundant phrasing and over-explanation
• Repetitive sentence structures and rhythms
• Glossy vocabulary that feels off-tone or unnatural
• Lack of lived experience or first-hand perspective
• Tendency to sit on the “safe middle” of every opinion
• No bold creative leaps, odd phrasing, or stylistic quirks
• Feels like it was written to avoid mistakes, not to say something real

How to Humanize What ChatGPT Writes – With/ Without AI Humanizer

Now that we know why AI sounds how it sounds, we can work around it to better suit our writing needs. From my experience, there are two broad ways to do so – the long way, and the short way, or rather, ways. In fact, most of the solutions you will find are quick fixes. Yet, the best practice that will help you throughout your writing gigs is a long and tedious journey. Let me start with it here, and then move on to the quick solutions.

1. Top Answer – Train your AI

For the first few months of ChatGPT, I spent quite a bit of time learning my way through its responses and mechanisms. In time, I learned that it is largely the other way round. It is not about how ChatGPT thinks or works, but how you do. Meaning – ChatGPT will do what you ask it to do, exactly how you ask it to do. What’s more, it learns from you and adapts according to your needs.

Now that brings about a huge (I mean HUGE!) difference. It basically means – my ChatGPT is not the same as yours. One of ours is smarter, more nuanced, more structured, even funnier, wittier, or simply better, in whichever aspect it is trained the most. In technical terms, this is “prompt-based conditioning.”

So, how do I say my ChatGPT is better? I have basically conditioned it for months, with my own writing material, which I believe is way more than any average human. Of course, I didn’t feed ChatGPT all of my writings, but enough for it to have a crystal-clear understanding of my writing style, tone, structure, the words I often use, and more importantly, those I don’t.

The good news – you can do the same. Simply ask it to, and ChatGPT will remember your writing style. Or if you often deal with extensive writing projects, you may want to use a Custom GPT. You can create it under the GPTs tab in ChatGPT.

You can read our complete guide on creating your own Custom GPT here.

For reference, here is the difference between a regular ChatGPT response and how my ChatGPT writes:

Stark contrast, right? Yet, I understand that not all of you reading this are interested in such a long and tedious solution. So, let me share the quick fixes next.

2. The Obvious Choice – Use AI humanizer

Just as ChatGPT (and other similar chatbots) is here to answer your queries, there are AI-to-human text converters, tools specifically meant to humanize any content. So the ideal workflow would then be – get your content produced by ChatGPT or other chatbots, then use such AI humanizer tools. Let me share the links for a few popular ones here.

• Quillbot: A library of AI-powered tools, Quillbot also lets you humanize any content your AI produces. Since it has its own AI-detection tool as well, humanized content by Quillbot is often strikingly similar to how an ace writer would write.
• WriteHuman: A dedicated AI tool meant to humanize AI content, WriteHuman is considered one of the best of its kind present today. You can simply visit its website here and try it out yourself.
• Humanize AI: As the name suggests, this is yet another AI tool that conveniently turns any AI-written text into a human-like write-up. It has different filters to adjust the writing style as per your needs, such as “Academic,” “Simple,” “Formal,” “Informal” etc. You can visit its website and try out the tool here.

3. Be Highly Specific – Custom Prompts to ChatGPT

There are many ways in which you can use ChatGPT itself to make its content sound more like human. Meaning, no need of an external AI Humanizer. These basically revolve around the fact that the more specific instructions it has, the more suited outcomes it will deliver. Here are some ways you can do that.

• Mention the personality and audience in the prompt: Tell ChatGPT who is speaking and who is listening. This shapes tone, style, and vocabulary to match real human intent. It basically helps shape the content in the form of a human conversation in a real-world scenario.
• Change perplexity: perplexity refers to a state of confusion. No one wants that in any real human conversation. Make sure that is also followed in the content your ChatGPT produces by specifically asking it to reduce it.
• Change burstiness: Burstiness refers to an uneven distribution of events. In speaking or writing, this basically means varied sentence lengths. Instruct ChatGPT to increase burstiness in order to mimic how humans naturally switch between short and long sentences.
• Specify a Flesch reading score: The Flesch reading score is a measure of text readability. It ranges from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating easier-to-read text. Naturally, AI chatbots tend to produce text with a low Flesch reading score. To humanize this content further, you may want to instruct ChatGPT to have a Flesch reading score between 60 to 80, maintaining an optimal balance between readability and elegance in writing.

There are steps other than these specific instructions that you can follow with ChatGPT to ensure more humanized content. Let us focus on those next.

4. Be Conversational – Micro instructions to ChatGPT

If you are not sure how to go about a lengthy article or write-up, you may want to take a conversation approach to producing it through AI.

• Step-by-step writing: For instance, instead of asking ChatGPT to produce a 1000-word article on – What is Grok 4, you may want to ask it to produce a 100-word introduction to this article first. You can then modify the result as needed, with follow-up instructions to it like “make it more engaging,” “start with the recent launch,” “rework the last line,” etc. Simply build the rest of your article this way, step by step.
• Fill in the blanks: Yet another way of going about this is to take ChatGPT’s help to fill in the blanks. How this works is, you actively write what you feel like writing, then use ChatGPT to continue the statement whenever you get stuck. This especially works in instances when you know how you want to start, but don’t know what to follow it up with. Simply write as much as you can, then ask ChatGPT to fill in the rest with as many words and whatever information you want. It helps the AI to follow the previous writing style as well.
• Add statistics, examples, data: This is more of a pro writing tip than an AI-use instruction. The idea is to spice up your writing with data, examples, or information that ChatGPT provides. This is especially suited for good writers who know and like to write most of the content by themselves. Simply share your writing with ChatGPT, and ask it to insert/follow up the write-up with an example, data, or even a joke. This helps the AI have context + brings gravitas to your writeup.

5. Best Practice – Write it Yourself

Not the advice you are here for, but come on! Stop being a hand-holder (using chatbots and AI humanizers) and write it yourself. After all, you decided to write, likely on the topic that you chose for yourself. Even if that’s not the case, learn about the topic at hand and start writing stuff. Neither of the two exercises involved – learning and writing – is harmful. I can bet they will help you a lot in the long run.

I am where I am today because, well, I write well. Though that is not how I started. In fact, back then, we didn’t have anything like ChatGPT to rely on. We had to go through material after material, think of a story to tie the information to, and come up with the perfect words to paint a picture. It was a whole exercise, something that is reduced to a prompt now. Though nowhere near as good, and possibly impactful.

The clearest example is this – I could’ve written this article using ChatGPT. I could’ve used an AI humanizer. Humanised content or not, I am sure it wouldn’t have been nearly as impactful. Judge for yourself –

Bottom line – if you are not there yet, you will be. Just double down on your craft of writing, and I am sure you will be the author the world has been waiting for. Ohh, and before I sign off, here is that bonus tip I promised –

6. Use this Prompt – Highly Humanized AI Content Guaranteed

“Use the dependency grammar linguistic framework rather than phrase structure grammar to craft a [ARTICLE/POST/EMAIL/ETC.]. The idea is that the closer together each pair of words you’re connecting is, the easier the copy will be to comprehend. Here is the topic and additional details: [DETAILS]”

I first came across this prompt on Reddit. Courtesy – Illustrious-King8421, it has worked quite well for all prompts I’ve tried it on.

You know it all now. Go write!