What are AI-isms? How can I record them?
How to track commonly used phrases by AI.
AI-isms are words or phrases that, due to the content used in training, are repeated often. Whilst these are phrases used in non-AI writing, the frequency AI generates them is disproportionate, and they become “tells” of AI writing.
Words and phrases that are AI-isms include “palpable”, “tangible”, “raced”. You may have noticed these repeated phrases throughout your story, appearing at a rate more frequent than normally seen in literature.
One way our users like to track AI-isms in Novelcrafter is through a codex entry and aliases. These aliases help you review your prose by highlighting these problematic intruders.
To create an AI-isms entry of your own:
- Make a new codex entry, with the type other
- Name the codex entry “AI-isms”
- Go to the actions menu, and assign the codex entry a colour (I use red)
- Now, in the aliases/nicknames, add the names of any AI-isms that you want to track
- Finally, you can click sort aliases to order them alphabetically
To help you with building your own list of ‘AI-isms’, here are some currently gathered by the Novelcrafter community.
Commonly used words
absolutely, abyssal, affection, aftermath, algorithmic, aligned, almost alive, amidst, amiss, analyzed, ancient, anticipating, anticipation, apprehension, bashfully, beacon, beacon of hope, blown wide, cacophony, calculate, calculated, calculating, calibrated, calloused fingers, can’t help but feel, carried the weight, cascading, cast a warm glow, casual indifference, cataloged, ceaseless, chaotic, charged, charm, chill, chilled, chilling, chromatic, churl, churn, churned, churning, clandestine, clenching, clenching her jaw, clenching his jaw, coded, comfortable, comforting, complex, computed, constructed, could feel, crystal, crystalline, crystallized, dance, dances, dancing, dart, database, delve, delved, delving, depths, desire, determined, determining, disrupt, disrupted, disrupting, down her spine, down his spine, down my spine, dust mote, echo, echoed, echoes, echoing, efficient, effortless, electric, encounter, enigma, enigmatic, ensure, ensuring, ephemeral, etch, etched, etching, ethereal, eyebrow, facade, familiar, fascinating, firmly, flawless, fleeting, flicked, flicker, flickered, flowing, fluttered, footfall, footsteps, foreboding, fractured, fragmented, framework, furrowed, furrowing, galaxies, galaxy, gleaming, glean, gleaning, glided, glint, glinting, glistening, gloom, glooming, grapple, grappling, grave, heart, high-stake, hulking, implicating, implication, impose, imposing, indexed, input, intensity, intricate, intrigue, intriguing, jaw clenched, kaleidoscope, layers of complexity, learned, leveraging, lilt, long shadow, loomed, looming, looms, luminous, lurch, lurched, lurching, macabre, magnetic, marble, marveled, mask of indifference, maw, measured, mechanical, methodical, mosaic, moth to a flame, moths to flame, navigate, navigated, navigating, newfound, normalcy, oppression, oppressive, optimized, otherworldly, output, palpable, pang, parameters, pattern, patterned, pawn, perfect, peril, playfully, political landscape, pomposity, pools, porcelain, potential, pounding, practiced ease, predator, predictable, preposterous, pristine, processed, profound, programmatic, pull, pulse, pulsed, pumping, quickened, quivered, race, raced, racing, racing heart, radiant, remarkable, reminder, repository, resolve, resolved, resolving, resonance, resonated, restrained, reverberated, rhythmic, roaring, same, sanctuary, satin, scanned, scanning, scratched her head, scratched his head, scripted, searing, sense of, sent shivers down, sentinel, sentinels, sequenced, shared breath, shattered, shimmered, silence, silk, simmering, sinewy, single tear, sinister, skipped a beat, soft ache, solace, solitary, spectral, standard, standardized, stark, steeled, stomach, streaming, streamlined, structure, sturdy, surreal, swept away, symphony, synchronized, synthetic, systematic, tangible, tantalizing, tapestry, templated, tenderness, tension, testament, the last thing, throbbed, thundered, tight, tinge, tinged, to the core, together, traced, tracing, transfixed, treacherous, trembled, trepidation, Tuesday, uncanny, unexpected challenge, unravel, unraveling, unreadable, unsettled, unspoken, unwavering, variable, variables, velvet, vibrated, vise-like grip, voice hitched, warmth, wavered, wavering, weight, whimsical, whisper, yearning
Commonly used adverbs
angrily, anxiously, barely above a whisper, carefully, cautiously, coldly, completely, coolly, coyly, deliberately, dreamily, eagerly, ever so slightly, fervently, gently, happily, helplessly, hesitantly, hungrily, inexorably, intensely, knowingly, languidly, lazily, lightly, longingly, loosely, needily, nervously, passionately, perfectly, precisely, purposely, quickly, really, reluctantly, sadly, seductively, sharply, shyly, slightly, slowly, slyly, smugly, softly, suddenly, suggestively, sweetly, teasingly, tenderly, tightly, truly, utterly, very, warily, warmly, wickedly, wistfully
Commonly mentioned character names
Blackwood, Brady, Chen, Elara, Elena, Emily, Evans, Henderson, Lily, Marcus, Martinez, Nakamura, Patel, Rodriguez, Sarah, Thompson, Lyra