How to detect AI text, and how to humanise it (without lying)

sebastian@graef.io (Sebastian Gräf) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +1000

You wrote the post yourself. Sunday morning, two coffees, no assistant. On Monday a reader pastes it into an AI detector, it lights up red, and now you are in a comment thread defending your own sentences. Or the reverse: you used an LLM for a first draft and it reads like every other LLM draft, smooth, confident, and dead. Both problems have the same root, and neither is solved by the “undetectable AI humanizer” tools the internet keeps selling you.

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How to detect AI text, and how to humanise it (without lying)