So, I have seen a lot of people writing excellent content and because their research paper, essay or writing is too good, they have to "dumb it down" or create flaws, because while they might've written the content entirely by themselves, AI keeps flagging it as false positive aka AI-generated.

In order to overcome this issue, one needs to know how to work around it, without losing your brilliance.

Source: How To Avoid an AI Detection False Positive? by Emily O'Connor Kefs on contentwriters.com :

In just a few short months, artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the landscape of writing forever. The AI industry is expected to grow 13 times in just seven years, showing no signs of slowing down.

With the growing popularity of ChatGPT, Jasper, Copy, Anyword, Rytr, and more, many content writing services have implemented AI detection tools as a necessary safeguard to ensure a 5-star client experience.

As with any new technology, however, AI detection tools are not perfect. These tools occasionally produce a "false positive," flagging content as potentially created by AI, when the human writer insists it is 100% original.

What Are AI Detection Tools?

Fairly quickly after the emergence of easy-to-access content writing AI like ChatGPT, AI detection tools were developed. AI detection tools like Content at Scale, Originality.ai, Passed.ai, GPTZero, Copyleaks, and more have emerged to detect when content is copied and pasted from AI.

Originality.AI is often heralded as the top, all-encompassing AI detection tool for serious content publishers.

What Do AI Detection Scores Mean?

AI detectors give each piece of writing a score, analyzing different points to determine the probability of whether the content was created by a human or AI.

For example, Originality.ai provides an "AI vs. Human" score with a high Human score indicating the content was most likely written by a real writer. A score of 10% AI and 90% human means there is only a 10% chance the blog post or website content was created by AI. AI detection scores are typically a probability, not a breakdown of content composition.AI detection tools are not perfect and have the potential to flag something incorrectly as AI-generated. A false positive from an AI detection tool would mean that the score indicates a high probability that the content was AI-created, when it was, in fact, human-written. Reliability varies across tools, and as platforms get more sophisticated, accuracy will improve. In the meantime, there is a chance for content being inaccurately flagged as AI-created when it wasn't. Understandably, this has created growing concern among content writers.

However, it's important to clarify that if the content was heavily created by AI, but was edited with some human input, this would not be considered a false positive. AI detection tools correctly flag this type of content as AI-generated.

How To Avoid an AI Detection False Positive?

1. Utilize free originality tools.

Working in Google Docs and installing a free Chrome extension like Originality Report keeps a record of your working file. It basically "watches you write," viewing the editing process, seeing changes in real time, and more. This provides a backup just in case your writing is flagged as a false positive.

2. Do not use AI tools to edit your content.

Even if you've written the content completely yourself, avoid asking an AI to edit your article. Apps like Grammarly or Hemingway provide editing, grammar help, and more, but having Grammarly's Beta AI (GrammarlyGO) edit your entire piece will result in it being AI-detected by the scanners.3. Minimize the use of artificial intelligence tools for writing.

Utilizing AI tools to create content can feel like a slippery slope. First, you use it to generate an outline, then you use it for inspiration for an introduction and conclusion, and before you know it, you're copying and pasting from ChatGTP. One of the best ways to avoid an AI false positive is to simply avoid AI tools when freelance writing. After all, you're getting paid for your original thoughts!

4. Rely on your unique tone and voice.

Every writer has a one–of–a–kind tone and voice when they craft anything from a whitepaper to website copy to a press release. Honing your unique style will help prevent robotic-sounding copy that might get flagged as AI. Here are a few ways to do this.

- Switch up your sentence structure, length, and syntax — vary your phrasing, change up sentence styles, and write in an engaging manner.

- Avoid highly repetitive words and phrases — wordy phrases and "fluff" will quickly get flagged by AI scanners.

- Provide contextual analysis and deep insights — don't simply regurgitate facts; connect the dots between concepts and expand with context.

- Keep your tone conversational and human — use contractions and varied sentence structure, and stay conversational when possible- Cite reputable sources and data — be sure you're using and referencing appropriate sources

- Avoid the passive voice — using the active voice helps your writing stay concise, authoritative, and clear.

5. Vary your content's structure.

AI tools produce very formulaic content, often with paragraphs and subsections of similar lengths, short subheadings, and a "Conclusion" subheading before a brief conclusion. To differentiate your work, vary the length of your paragraphs and utilize descriptive headings.

And that's all! This is not fool-proof and that hurts, but its still better than getting your content AI-flagged even when you did the work.

Sara.