Good question! I didn't because I already have another custom skill which also embeds the specific tone of voice I wanted for this newsletter. Plus, every newsletter goes through human editing. If I had to work with higher volume of content production, I would for sure include this skill in the workflow ;)
I have been devouring your content since yesterday and I must say it is so valuable. I have created content with some of your tools already so imagine how excited I was today to find this latest one. Thank you.
I am 70 and not techy. I’ve simply instructed Claude to refer to Anne Lamott’s book Good Writing and to use her Rules. Then to please explain to me which rules it used in any editing to my writing so that I can grow in my writing abilities. I’ve told it that I don’t want my writing to sound like AI. I’ve also directed it to Donald Miller’s Story Brand concepts as the reader being the Hero of my articles. Seems to be working out fine.
The voice fine-tuning is a hard one. I personally use three layers like you suggest (my voice, anti-AI-writing, and my beliefs).
The one thing that helps is my feedback loop. I have a daily routine that checks everything in outputs folders and find deltas with my voice style guides (3 above). Then I decide if it needs to enter as corrections.
This matches how I use it — AI drafts, but the final voice has to come from me. A 'skill' to fix the AI voice still feels like outsourcing the fix instead of doing the edit yourself. The real humanizer is just... rereading it and asking 'would I actually say this?
This nails the problem so well; the AI voice trap is real. Polished but soulless writing doesn’t connect, and swapping “leverage” for “use” won’t fix it.
One of the clearest tells for me is uniform confidence—every sentence sounds equally certain, even when the underlying evidence is weak. Adding specific examples and varied sentence rhythm helps, but factual verification still has to be a separate step.
Are some of y’all still able to write without AI ???
Pls share your unperfect, but human written piece,
Here is mine, I call it *unedited thoughts, If you like to dig in reflecting how we decide to capture and remember moments, this article is one piece of a collection named “field trip and photography”. some other thoughts about filming my trip in Japan are coming soon !!!
Meanwhile, next week, the article “Threshold for Creativity” from the collection “space for art and design” will be about an exhibition I visited last time in Zurich.
Did you run the skill on this article?
Good question! I didn't because I already have another custom skill which also embeds the specific tone of voice I wanted for this newsletter. Plus, every newsletter goes through human editing. If I had to work with higher volume of content production, I would for sure include this skill in the workflow ;)
Would my article have the Claude watermark on it? How does that work and does it apply here with this skill of the week?
Ooh that’s a good tip. Yes need something like that. How to make it more “me” and authentically represent my experience, thinking and feeling.
It was written by a middle schooler who learned what the ‘enter’ key was.
I have been devouring your content since yesterday and I must say it is so valuable. I have created content with some of your tools already so imagine how excited I was today to find this latest one. Thank you.
Thanks a lot! Happy to know you're finding value in our recommended skills :))
Same! I love it
I am 70 and not techy. I’ve simply instructed Claude to refer to Anne Lamott’s book Good Writing and to use her Rules. Then to please explain to me which rules it used in any editing to my writing so that I can grow in my writing abilities. I’ve told it that I don’t want my writing to sound like AI. I’ve also directed it to Donald Miller’s Story Brand concepts as the reader being the Hero of my articles. Seems to be working out fine.
Love what you’re doing!
The voice fine-tuning is a hard one. I personally use three layers like you suggest (my voice, anti-AI-writing, and my beliefs).
The one thing that helps is my feedback loop. I have a daily routine that checks everything in outputs folders and find deltas with my voice style guides (3 above). Then I decide if it needs to enter as corrections.
It slowly builds up 😉
Sounds awesome, but the proof’s in the pudding. Could you share a before & after?
I would say it's even faster if you try it and see for yourself :P
That’s a very useful tool that I am going to try out. Thanks. I usually instruct Claude not to sound like AI but I guess it is naive 😊
Unfortunately sometimes you have to reinforce the concept :P
“It’s that AI text has fingerprints — and most people don’t know how to remove them.”
I’ve chosen to see this as intentional irony.
This is ironically one of the most ai-generated sounding slop articles I’ve read
This matches how I use it — AI drafts, but the final voice has to come from me. A 'skill' to fix the AI voice still feels like outsourcing the fix instead of doing the edit yourself. The real humanizer is just... rereading it and asking 'would I actually say this?
"No fluff"
All humans MUST like this comment to prove you are NOT ai.
My biggest tell for AI is this --> "—". That long dash is only used by AI, your article is full of them.
It's easy to fix. Just do it never to use em-dashes in response. Close up and you instructions
“Here’s what’s worth knowing” 😆
Exactly! Such phrases are dead giveaways. Drive me crazy to hear them coming out of human mouths on YouTube these days.
This nails the problem so well; the AI voice trap is real. Polished but soulless writing doesn’t connect, and swapping “leverage” for “use” won’t fix it.
One of the clearest tells for me is uniform confidence—every sentence sounds equally certain, even when the underlying evidence is weak. Adding specific examples and varied sentence rhythm helps, but factual verification still has to be a separate step.
@stacksave
Hello,
Are some of y’all still able to write without AI ???
Pls share your unperfect, but human written piece,
Here is mine, I call it *unedited thoughts, If you like to dig in reflecting how we decide to capture and remember moments, this article is one piece of a collection named “field trip and photography”. some other thoughts about filming my trip in Japan are coming soon !!!
Meanwhile, next week, the article “Threshold for Creativity” from the collection “space for art and design” will be about an exhibition I visited last time in Zurich.
Stay tuned !!!
Kindly,
Rosé