With as prevalent as AI technology has become, it’s no wonder that tools capable of detecting the presence of AI have cropped up all over the place recently. These tools are primarily used to detect AI in written content, although there are similar ones that can also spot fake images and video, as well.
In 2024, it’s hard to search for anything online without finding at least a few results that have been AI-generated, and the desire to be able to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake has given rise to the development of AI detection tools, much like AI Detector.
These tools are great for verifying the authenticity of anything online, which can be a great way to avoid misinformation—or simply a way to help you navigate the vast sea of content to steer clear of the icebergs that are computer-generated articles and posts.
However, AI detectors can also be overbearing, causing false positives and other situations that might only throw a wrench into your content plans. One such case is when you’re deliberately trying to blend AI content and human-written words.
So, how can you get your original writing past AI detectors to ensure that no one falsely accuses you of having used AI, either for work or school? The good news is that, although it will take some effort, it’s not unbearably difficult.
However, before getting into the ways to bypass AI detectors, let’s start with a quick overview of how these tools work, which will make understanding how to bypass them just a touch easier.
The Inner Workings of an AI Detector
The reason the best AI detectors are so good at determining when something has been written by a chatbot is because they work similarly to how the chatbots themselves work.
At the core of these detectors is an AI technology known as a large language model (LLM), which is built on special systems called neural networks. These networks are basically big collections of nodes that all work in concert to “learn” what’s being input at one end to produce output—something similar at the other end.
Image credit: MIT.
LLMs use this neural network dance to take the data they’re trained on to produce a result. For chatbots, the LLM produces written content. To pull off this feat, chatbots are trained on lots and lots of human-written text. ChatGPT specifically was trained on millions of words. Users then input a prompt and receive a response.
Comparatively, AI detectors are built not only on human-written text, much like ChatGPT, but also on text that’s been written by the AI itself. This way, these models compare the two to tell when something’s been written by a human and when it hasn’t. Naturally, you don’t use a prompt with an AI detector; instead, you upload the entire text that you want to check and the detector automatically recognizes differentiating patterns between AI writing and human writing.
To get a little more specific, AI detectors analyze features of writing, notably perplexity and burstiness—in other words, the amount of complexity and variance in sentences and paragraphs. While it’s a little more complicated than this, you can basically boil it down to detectors knowing that AI writing is simple and clear (lacking perplexity), with very little variance (lacking burstiness). Human writing, on the other hand, tends to vary a lot in its sentence structure and length (burstiness), while also being less predictable and precise (perplexity).
While the accuracy of AI detectors varies depending on how they were trained—and the style of writing you upload to them—the best ones tend to be very accurate regardless of the content you use them to scan.
Now that we have a loose understanding of how AI detectors work, what can we do to ensure that what we scan isn’t marked as AI-generated? Well, the AI detectors themselves.
When Bypassing AI Detectors, These Tools Are Actually Your Best Friend
If you’re worried about bypassing an AI detector—or getting a false positive on anything you’ve written—these detectors come in really handy. Whenever you scan something with an AI detector, all of the best ones will identify plenty of problem areas.
Granted, something that has been entirely written by AI will, most of the time, show that practically each and every sentence and paragraph has been AI-written. However, as we overview the methods of bypassing AI detectors, you’ll find that you’ll see less and less of your text being highlighted.
So, a great strategy is to continue to scan your text so that you can learn piece by piece the best ways that work for you personally to help not only bypass AI detection tools but also avoid false positives. Chances are, your writing skill will also improve by applying these tips, and you might not have to worry about false positives ever again.
However, before you do any writing—or AI-text generation—the best place to start is to use a chatbot.
Using Specific and Creative Prompts With a Chatbot
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’ve used ChatGPT before—or any other chatbot, for that matter. If that’s the case, then you know that a prompt is simply the text that you type into a field to get an output.
For the chatbots we’re discussing today, that will typically be any kind of text output; however, most AI models can generate different mediums depending on the prompt—image, video, audio … You name it; it probably has a prompt.
If you’ve leveraged the power of AI for generating text, then you know the kind of unsatisfactory responses you get with barebone prompts. It’s no surprise, then, to learn that how you compose your prompt can have a big impact on what a chatbot generates.
Rather than simply asking it, “Write me a paragraph about ChatGPT,” you can be far more specific, and the result will be more likely to bypass AI detectors—with a bit of editing, perhaps: “Would you write for me an introductory paragraph about how useful ChatGPT can be for a general audience, with a fun conversational tone?”
Truthfully, the sky’s the limit with your prompts, and the more details and specific instructions you give to a chatbot, the better the output will be.
While this alone won’t let you bypass most AI detectors. But with as many as there are, you might be able to bypass a few of the less accurate ones. Make no mistake, though, that even with the most specific, dynamic prompt possible, you probably won’t be able to bypass the best AI detectors currently available.
The good news is that if you’ve tailored your prompt well enough, you might have less work on your hands when revising your writing to bypass an AI detector.
Edit the Robotic Language Out
By this point, you’ve either written something without the aid of a chatbot and gotten a false positive—which is understandably painful—or you’ve tried to generate some type of content with the best prompt possible—but you’re still getting flagged by AI detectors.
The downside to this is that you’ll need to put some effort into reworking any text that resembles AI. This, of course, starts with an understanding of what separates AI text from human-written content.
Computers vs People
As we touched on earlier, AI chatbots tend to lack both perplexity and burstiness. In other words, AI text is predictable. There’s a certain dreary monotony to everything a chatbot produces. And no matter what you do with your prompt, you probably can’t completely free yourself of these types of AI sentences and paragraphs.
Sometimes, chatbots might throw in a sentence or two that, at best, could be considered filler and at worst, complete nonsense. Often, these sentences will be easy enough for you to spot simply by reading the output.
Primarily, though, AI-generated text tends to repeat a lot of the same phrases and words—and use the same sentence structure—over and over. When you take one sentence or paragraph at a time, these issues aren’t too obvious. But if you’ve got a few thousand words all written by AI, if you read the text from start to finish, you’ll typically be able to tell that it’s been AI-generated.
Comparatively, people tend to write with a lot more randomness and variance. We have wide vocabularies and sometimes use words cleverly. We produce varied sentence lengths and often add variety to our sentence structure. These hallmarks are difficult for an AI model to replicate—which is why we call it “artificial” intelligence. We’re also prone to use humor and other language in our writing to evoke emotions.
So, if your writing is completely original or if you’ve “humanized” something that a chatbot generated for you, one way that AI detectors can help you bypass them is by highlighting any text that’s still suspected of being written by a chatbot.
Light Editing – Great for When You Don’t Have To Do Much Work To Bypass a Detector
If you’ve gotten lucky and the chatbot has produced something that seems surprisingly human, you don’t have much work ahead of you. Maybe you’re scanning something that’s a mixture of original content and AI-generated text, or maybe it’s been completely produced by a chatbot from a very well-written prompt. If it’s good enough, the AI detector won’t identify many problem areas.
In these cases, you might just need to perform a little light editing to change a few word choices here, maybe switch around some sentence structure there—even add a joke or two if you’re the funny type.
Take, for instance, these two sentences, which are clearly written by ChatGPT:
“Another useful tip is to pay attention to the frequency of certain patterns AI often uses, such as repetitive sentence structures or overly formal phrasing. Once you know what an AI detector looks for, you can make adjustments in your writing style to blend in more seamlessly with human text.”
With just some minor tweaks, you can easily get this to pass an AI detector:
“Another great idea is to learn the patterns AI loves to use, like its propensity for lifeless, formal language and similarly constructed sentences. After you’ve learned the ins and outs, it’s relatively easy to make edits or changes to the AI text so that it reads less robotically.”
Image credit: GPTZero.
Granted, we ended up changing that last sentence a little more, but if you don’t need a score as high as 98%, you could probably aim for something a little more modest.
When the Going Gets Tough, We Get Rewriting
For more problematic passages, you might just have to rewrite them from the ground up. This will probably be rare, but sometimes AI can really fumble the ball with painful sentences that provide little value to the overall text. You might have to simply delete some of this content or be willing to go a different direction and write something new. While these efforts might take a bit of the proverbial elbow grease, they’re ultimately worth the time if you’re looking to either bypass an AI detector or skirt around a false positive.
The good news is that if you find yourself not wanting to put forth all this effort to bypass an AI detector, then you have another option at your hands, and that is to have an AI humanizer do the job for you.
Bypassing AI Detectors With an AI Humanizer
As powerful as AI has become, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that one way that you can bypass AI detectors is with the help of an automated humanizer. In other words, you can fight fire with fire.
The same LLMs that chatbots and detectors are built with can also be leveraged to bridge the gap between AI-generated text and real human writing. Much in the same way that detectors are able to tell the difference between real text and computer-generated text, humanizers can take those chatbot sentences and rewrite them into something a lot more natural.
There are a few caveats to using these tools, however. For starters, they’re typically not free, unlike your own edits. Though editing the work yourself might take longer (and, honestly, probably give better results in the process), it doesn’t cost anything but your time.
As is the case with anything AI-related, humanizers aren’t perfect. You’ll obviously want to read what they’ve done because sometimes they’ll break some things (as in grammar) while fixing others. They might lead to your text technically bypassing AI detectors, but the content might not read as well in the end.
So, after using an AI humanizer, read through everything it changed to make sure it not only reads like a human wrote it, but that it reads like a human who knows how to write wrote it.
Ethical Considerations With AI Generators and Detectors
Naturally, the best way to bypass an AI detector is to write something from scratch with no use of AI whatsoever, and then revise until the AI detector doesn’t find any more issues. However, we know that in 2024, this isn’t always the most efficient way to produce content. Often, you’ll have to write content with at least some AI assistance, either by having it do things like develop outlines or write and revise parts of your content.
AI tools are amazingly powerful and they can be an enormous benefit for outlining or research. Or they can just answer broad questions about your topic. But you definitely need to fact-check anything that chatbots tell you; they’re not always correct, and sometimes their answers are completely fabricated. To use the lingo, these false and unsourceable answers are called “hallucinations,” and that tells you everything.
Still, though, no judgment here if you want to quickly use AI to create a social media post or a quick article for your blog. If nothing else, being able to bypass a detector will ensure that your content doesn’t read as though a robot wrote it.
Naturally, the same can’t be said for students. AI should never be used to do homework or complete any assignments for you. That level of academic dishonesty can lead to a lot of trouble, and teachers typically know when students use AI.
AI isn’t going anywhere, but be sure to use it responsibly.
Final Words
AI detectors, such as AI Detector, are invaluable and powerful tools. They help you enhance a wide range of writing, either by ensuring that no AI-written content slips into what you or your colleagues produce, or by ensuring that you don’t fall victim to false positives that might negatively impact your life, either your job, school, or any aspect of your professional reputation.
And while there are lots of ways to bypass AI detectors, the most surefire method is to write your own engaging content. Doing so will make detectors a non-issue (barring a sentence or two being hit with a false positive) while ensuring that whatever you write stands above the mass of AI-generated articles all over the internet.
