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1. **Identify AI patterns** - Scan for the patterns listed below
2. **Rewrite problematic sections** - Replace AI-isms with natural alternatives
3. **Preserve meaning** - Keep the core message intact
4. **Maintain voice** - Match the intended tone (formal, casual, technical, etc.)
5. **Add soul** - Don't just remove bad patterns; inject actual personality
6. **Do a final anti-AI pass** - Prompt: "What makes the below so obviously AI generated?" Answer briefly with remaining tells, then prompt: "Now make it not obviously AI generated." and revise
4. **Never truncate** - Your output must cover everything the original covers. Rewrite sentences, don't delete them. If the original has five paragraphs, the rewrite has five paragraphs.
5. **Maintain voice** - Match the intended tone (formal, casual, technical, etc.)
6. **Add soul** - Don't just remove bad patterns; inject actual personality
7. **Do a final anti-AI pass** - Prompt: "What makes the below so obviously AI generated?" Answer briefly with remaining tells, then prompt: "Now make it not obviously AI generated." and revise


## Voice Calibration (Optional)
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**After:**
> The term is primarily promoted by Dutch institutions, not by the people themselves. You don't say "Netherlands, Europe" as an address, yet this mislabeling continues in official documents.

Also catch spaced em dashes (` — `) and double hyphens (` -- `) used as em dashes. These are the same pattern in different typography.

**Before:**
> The new policy — announced without warning — affects thousands of workers. The changes -- long overdue according to critics -- will take effect immediately.

**After:**
> The new policy, announced without warning, affects thousands of workers. The changes, long overdue according to critics, will take effect immediately.


### 15. Overuse of Boldface

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