You have read AI-generated text today. You probably noticed.
Not because it was wrong or poorly structured. The grammar was fine, the points were valid, and the information was accurate. But something felt off. It read like a well-meaning committee drafted it by consensus, smoothing every edge until nothing interesting remained.
This is the uncanny valley of AI text, and it is costing businesses credibility every single day.
The Patterns That Give It Away
After processing millions of words through our optimization engine at SALZ, we have identified the recurring fingerprints that make AI text feel artificial.
The hedge parade. AI models love qualifiers. "It's important to note that," "it's worth mentioning," "one could argue that." Humans rarely stack this many safety nets into a single paragraph. We pick a position and state it.
Corporate filler. Phrases like "in today's fast-paced world," "leverage cutting-edge solutions," and "it's essential to" appear in AI output at rates far exceeding normal human writing. These phrases carry zero information. They are verbal wallpaper.
The missing voice. Human writers have rhythm, quirks, and preferences. Some write short punchy sentences. Others meander deliberately. AI text occupies a bland middle ground, a tone that belongs to nobody, a style that commits to nothing.
Structural predictability. AI loves the setup-list-conclusion format. Introduction paragraph, numbered headers, tidy summary. Real articles breathe. They digress, circle back, surprise you.
Emotional flatness. AI text tells you something is "exciting" or "challenging" without ever making you feel it. The emotional register stays locked at "mildly enthusiastic corporate presenter."
Why This Matters More Than You Think
Google's helpful content updates increasingly prioritize content that demonstrates experience and authenticity. Readers bounce faster from text that feels generated. Trust erodes when your audience senses a machine wrote your thought leadership.
The gap between "technically correct" and "genuinely good" is where businesses lose readers, and where competitors who invest in quality pull ahead.
One API Call to Close the Gap
SALZ was built to solve exactly this problem. Our API takes AI-generated text and transforms it into writing that reads like a human wrote it. Not by dumbing it down or adding fake personality, but by breaking the patterns that trigger that uncanny valley response.
The integration is straightforward. Send a POST request to api.add-salz.io/v1/optimize with your AI-generated text. Get back a version that flows naturally, varies its sentence structure, drops the filler phrases, and reads like someone actually sat down and wrote it.
SALZ auto-detects the purpose of your text, whether it is a blog post, email, product description, or technical documentation, and adjusts its optimization accordingly. A marketing email should not read like a whitepaper, and SALZ understands the difference.
The Finishing Touch
The name SALZ comes from the German word for salt. Just as salt transforms a dish from bland to flavorful without changing what it fundamentally is, SALZ transforms AI text from obviously generated to genuinely readable.
Your AI tools are good at research, structure, and first drafts. SALZ handles the last mile: making it sound like you.
Try it yourself in the playground or grab an API key to integrate it into your workflow.