Discover the most common AI vocabulary words

GPTZero’s AI Vocabulary feature detects the most frequent phrases and words used by AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude in our data set.

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January

Top 50 AI Words and Phrases

Updated November 2024

These words and phrases are ranked based on the frequency they appear in AI documents, compared to human documents in our research of 3.3 million texts.

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What is GPTZero?

GPTZero is the leading AI detector for checking whether a document was written by a large language model such as ChatGPT. GPTZero detects AI on sentence, paragraph, and document level. Our model was trained on a large, diverse corpus of human-written and AI-generated text, with a focus on English prose. To date, GPTZero has served over 2.5 million users around the world, and works with over 100 organizations in education, hiring, publishing, legal, and more.

How do I use GPTZero?

Simply paste in the text you want to check, or upload your file, and we'll return an overall detection for your document, as well as sentence-by-sentence highlighting of sentences where we've detected AI. Unlike other detectors, we help you interpret the results with a description of the result, instead of just returning a number.

To get the power of our AI detector for larger texts, or a batch of files, sign up for a free account on our Dashboard.

If you want to run the AI detector as your browse, you can download our Chrome Extension, Origin, which allows you to scan the entire page in one click.

When should I use GPTZero?

Our users have seen the use of AI-generated text proliferate into education, certification, hiring and recruitment, social writing platforms, disinformation, and beyond. We've created GPTZero as a tool to highlight the possible use of AI in writing text. In particular, we focus on classifying AI use in prose.

Overall, our classifier is intended to be used to flag situations in which a conversation can be started (for example, between educators and students) to drive further inquiry and spread awareness of the risks of using AI in written work.

Does GPTZero only detect ChatGPT outputs?

No, GPTZero works robustly across a range of AI language models, including but not limited to ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-3, GPT-2, LLaMA, and AI services based on those models.

Why GPTZero over other detection models?

  • GPTZero is the most accurate AI detector across use-cases, verified by multiple independent sources, including TechCrunch, which called us the best and most reliable AI detector after testing seven others.
  • GPTZero builds and constantly improves our own technology. In our competitor analysis, we found that not only does GPTZero perform better, some competitor services are actually just forwarding the outputs of free, open-source models without additional training.
  • In contrast to many other models, GPTZero is finetuned for student writing and academic prose. By doing so, we've seen large improvements in accuracies for this use-case.
Lastly, many of our users - especially educators - have told us they trust GPTZero because we have only one mission: provide every human with the tools to detect and safely adopt AI technologies. Unlike many providers who recently released detectors as a side product, this mission will always be our number one priority.

What are the limitations of AI Detection?

The nature of AI-generated content is changing constantly. As such, these results should not be used to punish students. We recommend educators to use our behind-the-scene Writing Reports as part of a holistic assessment of student work. There always exist edge cases with both instances where AI is classified as human, and human is classified as AI. Instead, we recommend educators take approaches that give students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding in a controlled environment and craft assignments that cannot be solved with AI.

The accuracy of our model increases as more text is submitted to the model. As such, the accuracy of the model on the document-level classification will be greater than the accuracy on the paragraph-level, which is greater than the accuracy on the sentence level.

The accuracy of our model also increases for text similar in nature to our dataset. While we train on a highly diverse set of human and AI-generated text, the majority of our dataset is in English prose, written by adults.

Our classifier is not trained to identify AI-generated text after it has been heavily modified after generation (although we estimate this is a minority of the uses for AI-generation at the moment).

Currently, our classifier can sometimes flag other machine-generated or highly procedural text as AI-generated, and as such, should be used on more descriptive portions of text.

How does GPTZero AI Vocabulary work?

GPTZero regularly scans millions of AI texts and compares them to similarly uploaded human documents (based on subject matter, length, etc.) We identify clear, unusual patterns in phrases that are used by AI at least 2-3x more than by humans (the words on our top 50 list are used from 10x to 200x+ more).

How do I use AI Vocabulary scan?

If you sign up for GPTZero, you can scan your own text to find instances of AI vocabulary in your writing. We are also releasing a public list for everyone to see the Top 50 words updated regularly.

If I change the AI Vocabulary words in my text, will it affect my AI score?

Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. Our AI Vocabulary tool is NOT to our AI probability score; you could have written an entire text yourself and be scored as human, but still include phrases that AI will use that you may want to change to develop a more original voice.

Why does AI overuse certain vocabulary words?

AI is a “stochastic parrot” – it repreats back what it’s learned over millions of iterations. Reinforcement training on human data tends to make AI models “overfit” to small variations in their training data. We’ve seen reports that the human data ChatGPT uses to train makes it amplify some word choices much more than others.