Mistakes are a sign of humanity

I was working on a blog post recently and asked my partner to read an early draft. She asked me if I had used AI to help me write it. I sheepishly admitted that I hadn’t. She suspected as much because of ghe typos she found, which AI woukd have caught and fixed. The post might have taken me less time to write as well, which would have freed me up to do other things around the house. I felt a bit guilty.

But this also resulted in an unexpected ah-ha moment for me. The typos tipped her off that I hadn’t used AI. So, I thought, what if the key to using AI without appearing to be using AI was simply a matter of including a few mistakes? A random slip-up here or there might suggest that a real human had done the work, whereas a perfectly spelled of piece of prose might set off the AI alarm bells. That’s when I had the idea to create TypoBot.

TypoBot is a custom GPT that you can use to add a little touch of humanity to your writing before you send it off into the world. It doesn’t adjust your grammar or take out any of the tell-tale signs of AI-generated text like the hundreds of other custom GPTs that promise to help you evade AI detection. It just adds a few slips of the keyboard like you might see in an email that was quickly dashed off without a second read. It’s designed to be subtle.

If you’ve got a ChatGPT account give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

Ps, the typos in this post were not created using TypoBot. They were the result of me drafting this post on my phone and I decided to leave them in. ;)

Cover image made with Midjourney. Editing assistance provided by ChatGPT-4o.