GoKawiilSTE80 Humanizer rewrites AI text using aircraft-manual style English
A new tool called STE80 Humanizer combines two editing passes to make AI-generated text read more like human writing without altering its meaning. The first pass strips out 26 common 'AI tells' cataloged from Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing, and the second rewrites sentences using Karpathy's STE80 method, which pushes prose toward ASD-STE100, the controlled English standard used in aircraft maintenance manuals.
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The project explicitly states its goal is readability rather than evading AI-detection software, which distinguishes it from typical 'humanizer' tools built to fool detectors. By applying an aviation-industry plain-language standard, the approach could offer a more rigorous, repeatable method for simplifying bloated AI prose than ad hoc phrase removal alone.
- STE80 Humanizer uses a two-pass process: removing AI tells, then rewriting toward ASD-STE100 controlled English.
- The tool's stated aim is readability, not bypassing AI-content detectors.
- It draws on a 26-item catalog of AI writing tells and a method attributed to Andrej Karpathy.
Source: github.com, 2026-11-09
Published there as: “Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100”
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