AI-generated content has a smell.

A friend sent me his first draft. It was clean, fluid, structured. But it smelled like a factory.

I gave him 3 prompts. The result: a text that sounded human, ready to publish.

Prompt 1: “Give me 5 honest critiques. Reject this draft as if you were the editor.”

Prompt 2: “What did I forget to tell you that would have made this text stronger?”

Prompt 3: “Why is this worse than what I’m sending you now? Rewrite to match.”

We apply them one by one. Each prompt removes a layer of “AI smell.”

In 5 minutes, the text goes from mediocre to publishable.

I use this method on every SEO article, every product description, every brief.

And you, what’s your test to know if content smells like AI?