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To Erase the "Written by AI" Feel, What to Do Before Checking Sentences

AI writing · Style · Editing · 2026.10.03 · AP Holdings Editorial · 2 min read

Translated from the Korean original by AI; native-speaker review pending.

AI writing gives itself away not because of a few sentences but because of the attitude of the piece. We are publishing our editing standards.

This article was drafted together with AI and reviewed by an editor. It draws on an external article, which is credited at the bottom.

People often say you can tell right away that AI wrote something. The article we referred to introduces a skill that lists common patterns and checks for them. A tool will probably help, but our position is that we fix the attitude of the piece before fixing its sentences.

There are usually three reasons it shows

  1. It answers a question nobody asked. It opens with "What is ~?" and strings together generalities.
  2. There is no judgment. It lists pros and cons and ends with "It depends on the situation."
  3. There is nothing concrete. No numbers, no dates, no names, no failure cases.

These three cannot be solved by editing sentences. They come undone only if, before writing, you decide "whose decision does this piece help, and in what way?"

Our editing standards

  • Put the conclusion or the issue in the first paragraph. Even if it starts with a question, answer it right away.
  • One judgment per piece. If there are two conclusions, it is two pieces.
  • Do not write numbers without a source. Write "we could not verify" for what you could not confirm.
  • Separate "Fact / Interpretation / What we would do" into paragraphs.
  • Do not hide that AI wrote it. We disclose it at the top of every article.

Final polish

Once a draft is out, find the places where connectives overlap, where things are listed in threes, and where the closing sounds like it is speaking on your behalf, and delete them. If it still reads well after the deletions, the piece is usable.

Erasing the AI feel is not about pretending to be human. It is about respecting the reader's time.

Further reading

This article was rewritten from our own team's perspective and standards, drawing on the concerns raised in the articles below. We did not follow their wording or structure, and where we could not verify a figure an original article cited against the primary data, we marked it as such. For some of the original articles, the full text opens only after logging in, so we read them based on the publicly available portion.

Also checked against other sources:

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