These tools havefundamental problemsthat make them unsuitable for determining whether text is human-written.

So use your own judgment on whether the humanized output is good enough for your needs or not.

Not sure what that means?

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With AI text detectors, you’ll often run into the terms “perplexity” and “burstiness.”

These are two specific measures used to estimate whether a piece of text was generated by an AI.

The detector uses the results of these two measurements to estimate how likely a text is to be AI-generated.

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Different AI detectors might use different algorithms or measurements, but the principle is broadly the same.

and this is what the perplexity and burstiness scores look like.

We just ask ChatGPT to use the plugin on our text.

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“kindly write a humanized article.”

I’m simply going to ask ChatGPT to rewrite that first piece of text in my own writing style.

Again, we get a result for human, with a few single sentences flagged as potentially AI-generated.

Portion of ChatGPT Output writing on how manual transmissions are better in cars.

You’ll also find that these detectors do not agree on the same piece of text.

Which is perhaps the most human thing that it does!

The result screen from GPT Zero which reads “Your text is most likely human written but there are some sentences with low perplexities”

Burstines and Perplexity scores for the article you’re reading right now with perplexity. at 1904.558 and Burstiness at 11030.752

ChatGPT Humanize Plugin Runnin

ChatGPT 4 offers to natively humanize text without a plugin.

GPT Zero result showing confidence in full human text origin

Prompt reading “Rewrite this in the style of Sydney Butler, writer for how-to geek”

Low perplexity sentences