STE80 Humanizer brings ASD-STE100-inspired rewriting to AI text
Hacker News featured STE80 Humanizer as a Show HN project for rewriting AI-generated text. It combines a method for removing 26 common AI-writing patterns with Andrej Karpathy’s STE80 approach, which rewrites sentences toward 80% of ASD-STE100 controlled English, the standard used in aerospace maintenance documentation. The project offers default, light and strict modes. Its small evaluation suite showed better fact preservation than a plain prompt in two examples, but the authors caution that the results are only a hint, not proof. The rules are simplified paraphrases and do not include the official ASD-STE100 specification or dictionary.
The project offers a concrete two-pass workflow: remove common AI-writing patterns, then simplify sentences with STE80-inspired rules while attempting to preserve source facts. Its fact-preservation behavior is supported by limited project tests, not independent validation.
STE80 Humanizer makes AI-written text read like a careful person wrote it, without changing what it says. It combines two methods:
- The humanizer method. Remove the 26 tells from Wikipedia's Signs of AI writing, in the catalog of blader/humanizer.
- Karpathy's STE80 method. Rebuild the sentences "80% of the way to ASD-STE100", the controlled English of aircraft maintenance manuals.
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