"AI-sounding" prose isn't one specific flaw — it's a cluster of small habits that, together, make writing feel mechanical: uniform sentence rhythm, generic transitions, emotions stated instead of shown, and metaphors that reach for the nearest cliché instead of the sharpest image. Human Score is a diagnostic tool built to surface exactly which of these habits is present in a given passage, so you can revise the pattern instead of guessing.
Open it directly at deepcrafter.ai/human-score, or run it from inside a story you're already drafting.
The five dimensions
Human Score doesn't return a single opaque number. It breaks the analysis into five craft dimensions, each pointing at a different failure mode:
- Vocabulary — variety, precision, and natural word choice, as opposed to reaching for the statistically likely word every time.
- Syntax — diversity and control of sentence structure, rather than the same subject-verb-object shape repeated for pages.
- Narrative — how naturally the prose presents and develops information, instead of front-loading exposition or explaining what a scene already showed.
- Rhythm — variation in pace, sentence movement, and emphasis, as opposed to a flat, evenly-metered cadence.
- Voice — the distinctiveness and consistency of the writing personality across a passage.
Common tells of AI-sounding prose
Across all five dimensions, a handful of patterns show up over and over. Worth checking for specifically:
- Repeated sentence shapes — several sentences in a row with the same length and structure.
- Generic transitions ("However," "Meanwhile," "As the sun set...") standing in for real scene logic.
- Excessive explanation — the narration stating a feeling the action already demonstrated.
- Familiar metaphors that could belong to any story rather than this one.
- Emotional labels without observable behavior — "she felt anxious" instead of what anxious looks like on her.
- Uniform paragraph length, page after page.
- Predictable contrasts ("not just X, but Y") used as a rhetorical crutch.
- A voice that never takes a specific linguistic risk — safe, smooth, and forgettable.
How to use the score without chasing a number
A score is a diagnostic signal, not a definition of literary quality — a controlled, repetitive, or unusual voice can be a deliberate artistic choice. Use it as a starting point for a human read, not a replacement for one:
- Analyze a passage.
- Identify the weakest dimension.
- Read the prose yourself and locate the actual pattern behind the low score.
- Revise with AI Rewrite, AI Master's advice, or Manual Editing — whichever matches the size of the problem.
- Compare the new version with the original.
- Keep the revision only if it genuinely improves the reading experience, not just the number.
Do not optimize for the score in isolation. Swapping synonyms to nudge a vocabulary score up, for example, rarely fixes the underlying issue and can make prose feel more artificial, not less.
When to check Human Score during a project
Checking every paragraph as you write tends to interrupt momentum. A more effective rhythm:
- After the first scene of a new project, to catch a generic default voice early — especially relevant if you're not yet using My Writing Style.
- On representative passages from a Deep Craft draft during the prose-review pass, rather than the entire manuscript at once.
- Before publishing or exporting, as one diagnostic among several — not the final gate on its own.
This guide reflects the available DeepCrafter workflow and may evolve as the product changes. Last updated: August 2026.