[Ads-l] Word: humanizer (adding the pseudo-human touch to AI output)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Website: The New Yorker (newyorker.com)
Article: How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
Author: Anthony Lane
Date: March 22, 2026

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/strikingly-similar-roger-kreuz-book-review

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For students with assignments to complete, who have already vanquished
their desolation by asking ChatGPT to compose an essay on their
behalf, a humanizer is an A.I. tool that takes what has been produced,
puts it through a further digital mill, and makes it sound as if it
had emerged from a verifiable person. Among the companies that offer
such tools are StealthWriter, HIX AI, and QuillBot. (If Nabokov had
written science fiction, his villain would have been called Quillbot.)
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Garson

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