How to Avoid Common AI-Generated Phrases in Your Writing

AI Writing Tip: Learn to spot AI’s most frequently-generated phrases. When you spot them, either erase them or change them around to appear distinct and personal. 

In order to help our users analyze word level and write differently from AI, we developed a formula for “phrase frequency” which takes into account the number of times a word appears in an AI-generated document, as well as the total number of words in a document. 

When comparing the top phrases that appear in human writing versus AI writing, with respect to quad-grams (phrases using four distinct words), here’s what we found:

AI	Human
In the face of	Is one of the
Thank you for considering	At the same time
For considering my application	As well as the
In the realm of	To be able to
Writing to express my	Will be able to
Am writing to express	The rest of the
Valuable insights into the	On the other hand
Plays a crucial role	With the help of
Underscores the importance of	In the form of
Am excited about the	At the end of

And again, in comparing the top phrases with respect to tri-grams (phrases using three distinct words), here’s what we found:

AI	Human
The importance of	As well as
The opportunity to	In order to
Insights into the	One of the
The complexities of	Be able to
The need for	The fact that
Understanding of the	Is one of
Thank you for	Because of the
Crucial role in	Due to the
Contribute to the	At the same
Is crucial for	The same time

It’s interesting that in both cases, the top-generated phrases from humans and the ones from AI are entirely different; there is no middle to this Venn diagram.

We can also notice certain things: in tri-grams, for example, AI tends to favor words like “crucial” and “importance.” On the other hand, human writing tends to favor adverbial or adjective prepositional phrases (“due to the”, “because of the”). 

From this dataset, we can encourage writers and readers to inject their own language into the most commonly-used phrases that AI tends to generate.