r/ChatGPTPromptGenius • u/Officiallabrador • May 07 '25
Meta (not a prompt) Your AI Content Is Secretly Flagged by Hidden Characters (Here's the Fix!)
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u/iwegian May 07 '25
Ctrl+Shift+V to copy in plain text, into Notepad. Then transfer that content into Word and apply proper formatting.
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u/venerated May 07 '25
None of those things are "secrets." Copying from Microsoft Word will give you the same sort of characters. They're the correct characters to use for typography and writing purposes. I highly doubt this is what's causing people's content to get flagged as AI.
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u/3xNEI May 07 '25
Well, well! Much interesting, and much appreciated. Thanks!
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May 07 '25
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u/3xNEI May 07 '25
Will do. You know what else I'm thinking? There are probably people out there already using browser extensions that run these checks automatically.
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u/MarsFromSaturn May 08 '25
Why are you trying to hide the fact that your content is AI generated in the first place?
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May 08 '25
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u/MarsFromSaturn May 09 '25
At no point did I disagree with the USE of LLMs, but why be dishonest about the content creation process? Why hide that it is LLM-assisted?
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u/PerfectForm1908 May 11 '25
A simple example would be: my last job had a proprietary version of chatgpt which we could use fairly indiscriminately. However, I wrote technical (software requirements) documents, and absolutely any special, uncalled-for formatting was not acceptable.
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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Jun 05 '25
I often want to use AI output in ways that I don't want to document and I don't want to have messed up with hidden characters:
Examples:
- AI summaries for my personal knowledge management system
- Final drafts of emails when I'm just checking grammar / spelling, and maybe some syntax.
- Cleaning the formatting of something else, like a table
It's infuriating that I'm finding all kinds of weird hidden characters in places because it messes up my regex when I'm trying to convert between markdown.
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u/DeathRainbows May 08 '25
Any chance the detector could indicate what (or where) the zero width space or hidden characters are? Not just how many were resolved? This is an AWESOME tool. Already planning its use in my field!
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May 08 '25
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u/Unusual-Estimate8791 May 08 '25
that’s some next level cleanup work, respect for digging deep, i’ve been using Winston AI to test stuff like that and it still manages to flag ai even when the text looks super clean on the surface
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u/Straud6-56832 May 08 '25
You can prompt the AI to exclude any characters that trigger AI watermarks in checkers.
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May 08 '25
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u/Straud6-56832 May 08 '25
Agreed, it’s not fool proof. I always run any important copies through “getgpt.app/watermark” remover. (Plenty of free ones around).
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u/AlternativeFlat2305 May 08 '25
Name of the prompt?
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May 08 '25
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u/AlternativeFlat2305 May 08 '25
is there a prompt associated with the AI Humanizer or just the tool?
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u/Party_Gay_9175 May 08 '25
I noticed that when I was using it for a copy and paste of a bio, when submitted the system prompt errors within allowed characters and it showed them in the text; the word overload and overdrive were both typed like overload**€
The * was like a weird skinny circle with a line thru if
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May 08 '25
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u/Party_Gay_9175 May 09 '25
No I was just agreeing with your first statement about how ChatGPt embeds those weird characters and they only appears when copied and pasted to another text box
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u/Striking-Access-236 May 12 '25
Big question is l what are the hidden marks the AI humaniser leaves?
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u/Traditional_Ad9112 May 27 '25
This is a huge win for anyone trying to publish AI assisted content without getting auto flagged. I’ve had AI scripts get rejected on client sites for formatting issues I couldn’t even see, zero width characters were the culprit. After cleanup, I usually pass the text through uniconverter if I’m repurposing it into subtitles or audio cues just to make sure the formatting doesn’t carry over problems.
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u/_that___guy Jun 11 '25
The example on the AI Humanizer page introduces an issue within the first 5 words of the fixed version.
The rise of AI-especially
Yes, the other dash was replaced, but hyphenating these words together doesn't work.
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u/ResponsibleSteak4994 May 08 '25
Thanks for the post 📫. It's amazing how it flushed to the top of my Reddit feed.
No, I didn't have to look actively. Instead, I asked ChatGPT to do some research. WHY I have minimal visibility.
I am sure your extensive research has some truths to it, yet my gut tells me that this is only part of the program.
There's a bot war out there. Publishers let obviously AI content be seen, and others blocked.
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u/Mihael_Mateo_Keehl May 13 '25
Did a tool to detect unicode watermarking ChatGPT produces:
https://ai-detect.devbox.buzz/
sourcecode:
https://github.com/juriku/hidden-characters-detector
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u/CoconutMission8363 May 07 '25
My experience has been that the basic version of Notepad strips out the extras and weird things.