--- title: Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells.... description: A new open source plugin called Humanizer instructs Anthropic's Claude Code assistant to avoid common AI writing patterns. The plugin uses a list of 24... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-volunteers-spent-years-cataloging-ai-tells-now-there-s-a-plugin-to-avoid-them--7cqk2tltk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them. | daily.dev og:description: A new open source plugin called Humanizer instructs Anthropic's Claude Code assistant to avoid common AI writing patterns. The plugin uses a list of 24... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-volunteers-spent-years-cataloging-ai-tells-now-there-s-a-plugin-to-avoid-them--7cqk2tltk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7CqK2TLTK.png og:image:alt: Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them. **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new open source plugin called Humanizer instructs Anthropic's Claude Code assistant to avoid common AI writing patterns. The plugin uses a list of 24 telltale signs compiled by Wikipedia volunteers who have been identifying AI-generated content since 2023. By feeding these patterns to the language model as a custom skill file, the tool helps Claude produce more human-sounding output, effectively turning Wikipedia's detection guide into an evasion manual. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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