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voice, negative parallelisms, and filler phrases.
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license: MIT
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- version: "2.9.1"
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+ version: "2.9.2"
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# Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns
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@@ -145,12 +145,18 @@ When voice is appropriate, avoid uniform sentence structures, bloodless neutrali
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> The event includes talks and panels. There's also time for informal networking between sessions.
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-### 11. Elegant Variation (Synonym Cycling)
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-**Problem:** AI has repetition-penalty code causing excessive synonym substitution.
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-**Before:**
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+### 11. Elegant Variation and Repeated Sentence Openings
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+**Problem:** AI has repetition-penalty code causing excessive synonym substitution. The same machinery misses in the other direction in narrative prose, where consecutive sentences all open on the same subject, usually a pronoun, and nothing varies where the sentence starts. Both are one defect: the model is managing repetition by rule instead of by ear. Cure over-variation by settling on a single referent. Cure under-variation by merging the sentences, by giving the subject role to something other than the character, or by opening on the action so the pronoun arrives later.
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+**Before (synonym cycling):**
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> The protagonist faces many challenges. The main character must overcome obstacles. The central figure eventually triumphs. The hero returns home.
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> The protagonist faces many challenges but eventually triumphs and returns home.
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+**Before (repeated openings):**
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+> She noted the door. She noted the lock on it. She filed both away.
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+**After:**
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+> She noted the door and its lock, then filed both away.
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+The fix is not banning the repeated word. A run of three sentences becoming one is what removes the tell; the survivor may still start with "She."
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### 12. False Ranges
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**Problem:** LLMs use "from X to Y" constructions where X and Y aren't on a meaningful scale.
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@@ -367,6 +373,7 @@ A clean human writer can hit several of the patterns above without any AI involv
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- **Curly quotes alone.** macOS, Word, Google Docs, and most CMSes auto-curl by default. Curly quotes only count when stacked with other tells.
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- **Em dashes alone.** Many editors and journalists use them often. Em dashes are evidence only when paired with formulaic sales-y rhythm.
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- **One short emphatic sentence.** Humans use clipped sentences to land a point. Flag staccato drama only when several short fragments appear in a row and inflate the tone.
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+- **Deliberate anaphora.** Repeating a sentence opening on purpose is an old device, and good prose uses it to build cadence or pressure ("She came. She saw. She conquered."). Flag a repeated opening only when the run does no rhetorical work and reads as the model failing to vary rather than a writer choosing.
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- **"Honestly" or "look" mid-sentence.** These are ordinary in casual writing. The tell is the standalone theatrical opener, not the word itself.
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- **Unsourced claims.** Most of the web is unsourced. Lack of citations doesn't prove anything.
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- **Correct, complex formatting.** Visual editors and templates produce clean output without any AI.
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Som Tripathi