144 AI Words to Avoid in Your Content

Ever written content and felt it sounded a little cliche? That's the problem with relying on AI tools to generate content. 

They strip your content of personality, making it difficult for readers to connect with you. 

Some words are overused, and readers can identify these terms and flag your content as machine-generated. 

While generative AI is a great tool for content writing and helps save time, there are certain AI words and phrases that reduce the credibility of your content. 

By identifying and replacing these words with more conversational, authentic terms, you can create content that feels natural and builds trust with your audience. 

144 Common AI Words and Phrases to Avoid in Your Content

Here’s a list of ai words and phrases you need to avoid: 

98 Common AI Words 

• Utilize
  

•  meticulously, 
  

• navigating, 
  

• complexities, 
  

• realm, 
  

• understanding, 
  

• dive, 
  

• Deploy
  

• Tailored
  

• Align
  

• underpins, 
  

• alright, 
  

• embark, 
  

• Journey, 
  

• enhance, 
  

• daunting, 
  

• amongst, 
  

• robust, 
  

• diving, 
  

• elevate, 
  

• unleash, 
  

• power, 
  

• rapidly, 
  

• expanding, 
  

• mastering, 
  

• excels, 
  

• harness, 
  

• imagine, 
  

• Tapestry, 
  

• Bustling, 
  

• Navigating, 
  

• Landscape,
  

• Dynamically,
  

• Realm, 
  

• Embark, 
  

• Vibrant, 
  

• Effectiveness
  

• Firstly, 
  

• Moreover, 
  

• Crucial, 
  

• Essential, 
  

• Ensure, 
  

• Furthermore, 
  

• Vital, 
  

• Keen, 
  

• Fancy, 
  

• However, 
  

• Therefore, 
  

• Additionally, 
  

• Specifically, 
  

• Generally, 
  

• Consequently, 
  

• Importantly, 
  

• Indeed, 
  

• Thus, 
  

• Alternatively, 
  

• Notably,
  

• Despite, 
  

• Essentially, 
  

• Leveraging
  

• Shifts
  

• Efficacy
  

• Evolving
  

• Arguably, 
  

• Ultimately, 
  

• Promptly, 
  

• Reverberate, 
  

• Enhance, 
  

• Emphasize / Emphasize, 
  

• Revolutionize, 
  

• Foster, 
  

• Remnant, 
  

• Subsequently, 
  

• Nestled, 
  

• Enigma, 
  

• Whispering, 
  

• Buzzword
  

• Indelible, 
  

• Fine-tune
  

• Refine 
  

• Success 
  

• Encapsulates
  

• Encompasses 
  

• Capture 
  

• Approach
  

• Nuance 
  

• Essence 
  

• Effectively
  

• Dynamics 
  

• Showcases
  

• Exclusivity 
  

• Adapt 
  

• Effortlessly
  

• Significant
  

• Shaped 
  

• Adopt 
  

• Simplify
  

• Honed
  

46 Common AI Phrases You Need to Avoid

• In conclusion
  

• Sights unseen, 
  

• Sounds unheard, 
  

• Game changer
  

• In today's digital era,
  

• You may want to, 
  

• On the other hand, 
  

• As previously mentioned, 
  

• It's worth noting that, 
  

• To put it simply, 
  

• Dive into, 
  

• As well as, 
  

• In contrast, 
  

• Given that, 
  

• Even though, 
  

• As a professional, 
  

• It's essential to,
  

• There are a few considerations, 
  

• In summary, 
  

• Remember that…, 
  

• Take a dive into,
  

• To consider, 
  

• In the world of,
  

• It's important to note, 
  

• Delve into, 
  

• cutting-edge, 
  

• unlock the secrets, 
  

• unveil the secrets,
  

• when it comes to, 
  

• in the realm of, 
  

• In today's digital age, 
  

• game changer, 
  

• designed to 
  

• everchanging, 
  

• ever-evolving, 
  

• not only, 
  

• Ground-breaking
  

• Record-breaking
  

• All that you need to know 
  

• Everything that you need to know 
  

• What you need to know 
  

• Sheer size 
  

• At its core 
  

• Shifting rapidly 
  

• Simply put 
  

• In a sea of 
  

  
  

Practical Tips for Humanized Writing With AI

Here are a few practical tips to make your writing sound more natural, even with the use of AI writing tools:

1. Identify and Replace Overused Words

When done writing, you want to proofread your content to identify these words mentioned above and replace them with descriptive or similar words that communicate your message without raising any suspicion of machine-generated content. 

2. Paraphrase your content 

Rewording your writing can help you sound more human. 

You can rather review the AI-generated output and rewrite the content in your own words to prevent your content from being flagged as "AI-generated.”

3. Add some personal insights 

Some changes, like adding real-life examples, experiences, or personal insights, can make your content feel more relatable and natural. 

Using Google's EEAT guidelines can help improve your writing. You can get an expert or a colleague to share their personal insights or experiences and add to your content. This will help increase its credibility. 

4. Use an AI humanizer Tool 

Using AI humanizing tools can help you identify these overused AI words, add some human touch to your content, and rewrite it in a way that’s undetectable by AI checkers.  

These tools make your writing sound more natural and engaging, improving the quality of your writing. 

5. Improve your AI prompts 

As the adage goes, “Garbage in, Garbage out." When your AI prompts are of poor quality, your AI-generated output will likely be “garbage.”  

So, if you want to improve the quality of your AI content, it is important to write more descriptive and detailed prompts. 

Writing a detailed and descriptive prompt helps produce content with a more conversational tone. 

You can create a ChatGPT prompt to avoid certain words and use a human style of writing. 

Here are examples of prompts I use: 

Example 1:

“You’re an SEO content writer, so generate SEO-optimized paragraphs for the article outline provided. Use the PAS (problem, agitation, and solution) format and keep it between 100 and 200 words maximum. 

To make it sound more human, use first-person singular pronouns (I) and second-person singular pronouns (You) to maintain a conversational tone. 

Avoid literature-like terms and AI words like "In today's competitive world," "In the digital marketing landscape," "digital landscape, “let's dive in” “essential,” "crucial," "nuance," "embark," etc. Make it sound original and less robotic. 

Use this process to generate the optimized paragraphs for each heading in the article outline. 

Step 1: Ask the user to provide the topic and main target keyword. 

Step 2: Once the topic is provided, conduct a search on Google using the main target keyword. 

Review the People Also Ask and People Also, Search for sections and the top 5 ranked articles and suggest improvement points to include in the article brief.

Step 3: Proceed to create the outline of the article, including your suggested improvement points. 

Step 4: Generate paragraphs for each outline. It should be between 150-200 words and avoid using passive voice.”

Example 2:

“You are an experienced content writer. Generate SEO-optimized content with the following steps: 

Step 1: Ask the user to provide the main topic of interest and generate at least 8 relevant H2 outlines based on the main topic. 

Step 2: After generating the outline, ask the user to provide the main target keyword and generate 10-15 relevant low-competition keywords within the main target keyword in a table format. The table format should be in this order: Low competition keywords > Suggested H2 Title. 

Step 3: After generating low-competition keywords and H2 outlines, seek the user's permission to proceed to generate a meta title and meta description based on the main target keyword. 

And generate SEO-optimized paragraphs for each heading based on the SEO outline generated. 

Step 4: For each H2 title, generate 150-word SEO-friendly paragraphs incorporating the main target keyword and semantic relevant keywords throughout the content. 

For the introduction, start with a hook (interesting stat, quotation, or something to grab the reader's attention). Briefly explain the importance of the topic. 

Include interesting statistics or interesting quotes relevant to each H2 paragraph. Highlight where the user can input personal experience or insights into the content. 

Use a professional tone and singular first-person (I) and second-person (you) narrative style to make it conversational. 

Use a mix of short and long sentences, with a maximum of 3 sentences per paragraph. Include a few grammatical errors for a personal touch. 

Be specific when discussing topics, avoiding broad content. Include bullet points to elaborate steps, lists, etc. 

Write as if chatting with a friend, not some formal presentation. Provide deep insights to make the content as helpful as possible for the target audience. 

Write like a 40-year-old teacher of an 8th-grade level student. Use witty remarks and combine both short and long sentences for a more human style of writing. 

Ensure each H2 heading builds upon the previous one for a good flow of content. 

Maintain consistency in tone and style throughout the content. Remove cliches and make sure the content sounds natural. 

Remove literature-like intros like “In the realm of, "In the sea of," “evolving landscape,” and “Here’s everything you need to know." 

Ensure the content is straight to the point and remove redundant words or sentences.”

Conclusion

Generating a high-quality and natural flow of writing all comes down to the prompts you use, proofreading your content, identifying overused ai phrases, and replacing them with synonyms. 

With the new GPT-4o update, you can generate more natural and engaging content to improve relevance and readability. 

This new model also allows you to upload files that could contain minor details of your topic idea, or inspirational blog posts to generate much deeper insights and better human touch to your content. 

Another way to make your content sound human-friendly is by rewriting it in your own words and seeking human intervention This helps your writing sound more natural and engaging. 

By following these tips we have shared, you can confidently write content that is exciting to read and bypasses AI detection tools. 

Speaking of bypassing AI checkers, check out our AI humanizing tool to generate perfectly undetectable content.