{
  "id": 2879908,
  "title": "I built an AI that writes like me, and I'm measuring how much it fails",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/i-built-an-ai-that-writes-like-me-and-im-measuring-how-much-it-fails",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-23T21:54:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/alkisyuv/i-built-an-ai-that-writes-like-me-and-im-measuring-how-much-it-fails-4o0"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The author built an AI tool called hyphos to rewrite AI-generated drafts to mimic their own writing style. They collected data from their own coding agent conversations and email correspondence over a decade, extracting about 1.27 million words and filtering out lengthy, machine-like text. After processing, they were left with 80,470 words that resembled their actual typing style. Hyphos uses a two-step process: first, a model rewrites AI drafts, then a set of rules removes any fingerprint-like elements, such as em-dashes or unusual word usage. The tool scores the output based on how much it resembles the author's writing style and counts any remaining AI-isms. In testing, the tool achieved a six-twelve accuracy rate, indicating it sometimes fails to distinguish its own writing from AI-generated text. Hyphos is open-source and runs locally, ensuring user privacy.",
  "summary": "Everyone can now spot machine text on sight, the em-dashes, the \"you're absolutely right\", the invented technical terms nobody at any job ever used. I write a lot with agents, and I did not want my published words to smell like that. So I built hyphos , a small open tool that learns how I actually write, from my own words, and rewrites AI drafts to sound like me. This is the build log, including…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}