Agent Output Sounds Too AI — What Now?

Your Agent ran successfully — but the content it generated feels robotic. It might be overly formal, overly vague, or simply doesn’t sound like a real person wrote it.

This doesn’t mean your Brand Voice is broken or your prompt is wrong. It usually means the model needs clearer human context or firmer stylistic boundaries.

What to check

Ask yourself:

• Is the temperature too low or too high?
  Low = stiff and generic. High = loose and chatty. Somewhere between 0.6–0.8 is often best.
• Are you using a lightweight model?
  Cheaper models tend to default to “AI-ish” phrasing. Try switching to GPT-4.1 or Claude 3.7.
• Is the Brand Voice description strong?
  A vague Brand Voice like “professional and helpful” won’t anchor the tone. The model will guess — and it often guesses wrong.
• Was the content type too open-ended?
  Prompts with no structure or no target outcome often drift into filler.

How to fix it

1. Improve your Brand Voice definition
   Go to Branding → Brand Voices. Add:
   • Clear personality traits (e.g., “conversational but grounded”)
   • Sentence rhythm tips (“short, punchy sentences”)
   • Phrasing guidelines (“avoid jargon, use contractions”)
   • A sample sentence or two in the desired tone
2. Use a higher-quality model
   Switch from O1, O3, or Haiku to GPT-4.1 or Claude 3.7. These models are better at maintaining natural rhythm and human phrasing.
3. Tweak the temperature
   If you’re getting robotic results at 0.5, try 0.7. If it’s too wild at 0.9, dial it back. The sweet spot depends on your brand.
4. Add a tone constraint to the prompt
   If you’re customizing the prompt, add a line like:
   “Avoid repetitive phrasing. Write in a natural, human tone that sounds like a professional — not a machine.”
5. Test in Prompt Studio
   Use Prompt Studio to isolate tone behavior. Try a few variations using the same voice to see how temperature or structure affects flow.

Long-term fix: Use a Humanizer Agent

For especially sensitive content — like email intros, thought leadership, or narrative copy — consider routing your draft through a Humanizer Agent.

These Agents take generated content and rewrite it using a more editorialized prompt that improves fluency, rhythm, and tone — while preserving your structure.

Summary

If your content sounds AI-generated:

• Check the tone clarity in your Brand Voice
• Use a higher-tier model
• Try adjusting temperature
• Add a line about human tone to your prompt
• Test with a Humanizer Agent when needed

Studio will handle the structure — but tone often needs a little extra human touch. That’s normal. And it’s fixable.