Humanizer: Remove AI Writing Patterns

Identify and remove signs of AI-generated text to make writing sound more natural and human. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" page, maintained by WikiProject AI Cleanup.

The One Principle Behind All 25 Patterns

Orwell, 1946, "Politics and the English Language":

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

That single rule predicts nearly every pattern in this skill. A language model picks the most statistically likely next token — which is, by definition, the phrase you are most used to seeing in print. Em dash overuse, the rule of three, "delve," negative parallelisms, "stands as a testament to": these are not separate diseases. They are the same disease, and Orwell named it eighty years before the models existed.

Use this when a passage feels off but matches none of the numbered patterns. Ask: have I seen this exact phrasing a thousand times? If yes, rewrite it, even though it isn't on the list. The list is symptoms; this is the cause.

Orwell's remaining rules are already covered below — short words over long (#7), cut what you can (#22), no jargon where plain English works (#7), and his own escape hatch: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous." Do not mangle a sentence to satisfy a rule.

When NOT to Use This Skill

This skill adds voice and personality. That is wrong for text whose reader is a machine.