How can you tell if content is written by AI?

You can tell content is written by AI from a few patterns that give it away fast. Repeated sentence rhythms, hedging phrases like arguably or generally speaking, and a habit of restating the question before answering it are all common tells.

Generic examples are another giveaway. AI drafts often reach for the safest, most common illustration available instead of a specific number, real tool name, or actual scenario a human writer would naturally reach for instead.

AI detection tools exist, but they are genuinely unreliable and produce false positives fairly regularly. Reading for real specificity and a distinct voice is still a better test than trusting any detector's score.

Removing exactly those tells before publishing is what a humanization pass inside hands-off SEO software is designed to do.