AI vocabulary
The words that give an AI draft away
One page per word, plus the full list split by how strong the evidence actually is.
Most lists of AI words tell you to delete a word and stop there. These pages say what the model is doing when it reaches for one, and whether underslop counts it. Four vocabulary items are scored. Nineteen more are computed and deliberately not counted, because they are ordinary professional English and flagging them would penalise the people who use them correctly.
By word
- tapestry
- Tapestry is one of four words underslop's linter scores outright, not just reports. What the metaphor does to a sentence, and why it earned that tier.
- delve
- Every list says delete delve. underslop's linter computes it but never counts it: the case against delve rests on a confound the viral chart never showed.
- The overused AI words list, sorted by evidence
- Most lists are the same forty words copied forward. Ours splits AI vocabulary into what underslop scores, reports without scoring, and never found in logs.
- foster
- Foster claims an effect without naming what produced it. underslop reports every use and never scores it, because the word is also just correct usage.
- boasts
- We searched twelve current models across our full log of 100 conversations for 'boasts' and found it zero times. What that means for your blocklist.
- pivotal
- Pivotal claims a sentence mattered without showing the before and after. The test that separates a real turning point from a decorated one.
- realm
- Realm swaps a nameable field for a vague spatial metaphor. Why it earns more suspicion than robust or leverage, even though underslop does not score it.
- in today's fast-paced world
- In today's fast-paced world is a stock opener. underslop's linter matches the exact phrase, and the fix is deleting the sentence, not rewriting it.
- testament
- The tell is the verb swap around testament, not the word by itself, and eight other nouns slot into the frame. What underslop's linter actually matches.
- it is important to note
- This phrase tops nearly every AI-tell list. Our model logs searched the full corpus for it and found zero hits, so underslop's linter does not score it.