This Skill Makes AI Writing Feel Human

HashLips Academy| 00:07:24|May 17, 2026
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introduces the purpose of the copy sanitizer and why it helps turn AI generated copy into more human sounding text.

HashLips Academy reveals a practical “copy sanitizer” skill that cleans AI-generated text to feel human, with setup tips and real-world use.

Summary

HashLips Academy’s video showcases a practical tool called the copy sanitizer, designed to convert AI-generated copy into text that reads as human-written. The creator explains why this matters: AI often produces hyphenated phrases and an unmistakable AI fingerprint, which can turn readers off. The skill is placed in the agent skill repo, and viewers are reminded to check the release version in the videos. After installing, you feed it a document, and the LLM applies the skill’s rules to remove hyphenations and perform light edits, without aiming to be a perfect editor. HashLips emphasizes that this is a sanitization step, not a replacement for a human editor, and notes the flexibility to tweak pattern detections to suit individual needs. The demonstration uses a fictional world-building project, showing how hyphenated phrases like animal-based and cross-market can be cleaned, while markdown formatting can be preserved or stripped based on user preference. The video also highlights practical tips: keep context from the skill during edits, and modify the skill file to customize behavior. Finally, the creator encourages viewers to try the tool, favorite the repo for updates, and mentions that the world of Diaz project serves as a live example.

Key Takeaways

  • The copy sanitizer is designed to strip AI-like hyphenations and reduce the “machine-like” feel in generated copy, making it more human-readable.
  • Installed via the agent skill repo and used by pointing the LLM to the skill with a relative path, then applying it to a document to sanitize text.
  • The tool is a starting point, not a perfect editor; you can customize its pattern detections to fit your needs by editing the skill itself in the repository.
  • It preserves formatting cues like markdown headers if the user wants to keep them, and can also remove markdown if desired.
  • A practical workflow shown: generate copy with AI, sanitize with the skill, then perform final edits with a human editor for a polished result.
  • The video demonstrates real-world use with the World of Diaz project, illustrating how sanitized text improves readability in worldbuilding content.

Who Is This For?

Creators and writers who use AI-generated copy and want a quick, customizable sanitization step before final edits. Ideal for artists, hobby authors, and indie developers who publish narration or worldbuilding content.

Notable Quotes

"The main thing about this skill is it's not going to be a perfect editor, a book editor for you."
Sets expectations that this is a sanitization step, not a replacement for human editing.
"This is just to get rid of that systematic machine looking like generated text that AI tends to give us, which is not wrong, but..."
Explains the motivation: make AI copy feel more human without claiming it’s perfect.
"If you feel like some of the rules in this skill is not working for you, it's as simple as opening up the skill and literally going and changing some of the pattern detections."
Shows the customizable, hackable nature of the tool.
"Now that we have the copy sanitizer skill in there, our client should know if we refer to it."
Describes how the skill is invoked in a project workflow.
"The beauty about skills is that you can take them, make it your own."
Emphasizes adaptability and personalization.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How can I sanitize AI-generated copy to sound more human?
  • What is a copy sanitizer in HashLips Academy and how do I use it?
  • Can I customize detection rules in a copy-sanitizing skill for AI text?
  • Does the copy sanitizer preserve Markdown formatting or remove it?
  • What’s the recommended workflow for turning AI text into polished human-like copy?
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Full Transcript
Recently, I've been busy compiling a book around my art and adding some copy to it with the help of AI. However, AI produces these hyphenated looking like words and has the AI fingerprint in it. Now, I want to change that. So, I made a skill that can turn AI generated copy into something that looks like a human wrote it. It basically sanitizes the text. And I'm going to show that to you in this video. The purpose for this is to help people out there who's not used to writing, but they want to write. They want to make cool things. Now, yes, for my book, I am going to get a human editor to help me edit the book. But this is a good step in the right direction to give that editor a more finalized version of what I feel is ready. If you want to try out the skill for yourself, you can find it in the agent skill repo. I'll leave the link in the description. always look at the release version that I show in the videos. However, in the skills folder, you can find many skills that I personally use on a daily basis that helps me create and I share it with the world. So, here is the copy sanitizer. If we go in here, we can just have a look briefly around what it's all about. It's about editing the copy, uh removing hyphenated words, doing light touch-ups, and I'll show you now an example. Now, the main thing about this skill is it's not going to be a perfect editor, a book editor for you. It's essentially just to get rid of that systematic machine looking like generated text that AI tends to give us, which is not wrong, but if you read it and especially if you read it in the context of an article or a book, it might just put someone a bit off and them thinking that this is AI and there was no thought put into it. Whereas as a creator, you might put a lot of thought into a copy, but you're just not a writer. So, you need that assistance to kind of have AI generate the copy, go over it, make some tweaks, and this is just a tool uh in your arsenal that you can use as well. Now, once you have downloaded the repo, you go and take that skill and you either put it in your claude configuration file under the skills directory. In my case, I put it in the dot cursor because I'm using cursor. However you want to add the skill, you can add it globally as well. If you're not familiar with that, watch some of my previous videos where I show this in detail. But now that we have the copy sanitizer skill in there, our client should know if we refer to it. Now, I have a repo open here. This is not my book that I'm editing, but instead this is the world of Diaz, a fictional world that I'm world building with another skill. However, as I was world building, you can see that there are some text and copies where these hyphenated words like cross market uh socalled animalbased these words are all um hyphenated and they clearly shout AI, right? And not only that, there are some sort of repetitions when it comes to AI generated code, semicolons being used in weird cases where a comma could have been used. So, I wanted to make a skill that can solve this at least as a quick uh sanitization step. It's not going to be the final edit, but it's going to at least give us a bit better looking text. Now, all that's left to do is what I like to do is go to the file and I'll just copy the relative path. You can just ask it as well. Please make use of the copy sanitizer skill and sanitize this document. and we paste it and we wait. So now the LLM is going to get this and it's seeing the copy sanitizer skill and it's starting to think, reading the skill, looking at the patterns, doing pattern detection. And the beauty about skills is that you can take them, make it your own. If you feel like some of the rules in this skill is not working for you, it's as simple as opening up the skill and literally going and changing some of the pattern detections that you feel you want to have different. It is a starting skill that you can make your own. Okay. And there we go. It has edited the the copy. And there we go. There's the first run. Now you can see that it has removed quite a lot of these hyphenated words like the animal-based, the fruit specific and it actually now explains what fruit specific means. Um it gives a bit more of that human feel to these paragraphs. Now of course it might miss something and here we've seen that it missed so called. So, we can just go ahead and say this looks good, but make sure that you get rid of all hyphenated words and with context of the skill, right? That it that it has in the just the previous uh prompt or ask, it should still have that context of that skill, but you can always ask it to reference the skill as well. So, there you can see now uh that has been sanitized as well. Now, it's very cool to go and have a look and see everything that it edited over here. You can see that the hyphenated words, it gives you a nice little um just insight on what it did when it was making its edit. Now, another beautiful thing about this skill is that if the user asks specific things to it, like this being a markdown file, you can see that it kind of leaves the markdown hashes and um headings alone because it understands that it's a markdown file. But if you wanted to, you can ask it to also just completely remove all of the markdown as well. It is a little bit flexible in that way. And that's how I intend to make it because I want to make these on the-fly edits as I am busy going over the copy. Now, I hope this is going to be of some value to you, this skill. Try it out. Let me know what you think. Remember to go and uh favorite the repo so that you can always see the latest skills that I'm bringing out. Um I am still a little bit under the weather. I don't know if you can hear from my voice, but I wanted to put this out here today cuz I am busy editing the book and I found it so amazingly cool to write something, then have AI finesse it a little bit and generate a piece of copy and then take it through the sanitization step to uh really make it feel uh natural and give it that human touch. And then you can go on and make your final edits yourself. And lastly, before I go, the text that we just edited here is not from my artbook, but instead from the world of Diaz. And what I've done with that repo is made a little nice starting point. So, you can go ahead and start here to read all about the world of Diaz and dive into this world building that I'm busy with here as well. So, I'll leave this link in the description, too. However, till next time, I hope you have an amazing day. Just for now.

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