Can You Make It Sound Like You? Post-Editing LLM-Generated Text for Personal Style

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24444v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:11:57 GMT
• Title: Can You Make It Sound Like You? Post-Editing LLM-Generated Text for Personal Style
• Abstract summary: Post-editing of large language models (LLMs) is a common collaborative writing strategy.<n>We find that post-editing increases stylistic similarity to participants' unassisted writing.<n>We find a gap between perceived stylistic authenticity and model-measured stylistic similarity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite the growing use of large language models (LLMs) for writing tasks, users may hesitate to rely on LLMs when personal style is important. Post-editing LLM-generated drafts or translations is a common collaborative writing strategy, but it remains unclear whether users can effectively reshape LLM-generated text to reflect their personal style. We conduct a pre-registered online study ($n=81$) in which participants post-edit LLM-generated drafts for writing tasks where personal style matters to them. Using embedding-based style similarity metrics, we find that post-editing increases stylistic similarity to participants' unassisted writing and reduces similarity to fully LLM-generated output. However, post-edited text still remains stylistically closer in style to LLM text than to participants' unassisted control text, and it exhibits reduced stylistic diversity compared to unassisted human text. We find a gap between perceived stylistic authenticity and model-measured stylistic similarity, with post-edited text often perceived as representative of participants' personal style despite remaining detectable LLM stylistic traces.

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