AI Word Overuse Explorer

AI has its own language style, encountered by millions of people every day. It may influence how we use language. Our research identifies words AI overuses and the mechanisms behind them. Use this site to explore AI word overuse.

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Top Overused Words

( AI tokens vs human tokens across document pairs)

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Key Findings

Chat-aligned language models overuse a recognisable vocabulary — colloquially delve words, AI slop, ghost words, AI buzzwords, or Modelese. This AI word overuse is now measurable in real human news writing across dozens of languages.

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languages analysed in the WMT News Crawl, from English to Hindi, Arabic, and Chinese.

+15.1%

average rise in AI-overused words in news after ChatGPT (2023–2024 vs. 2020–2021), while matched baseline words fell −4.5%.

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languages where “emphasize”-type verbs are overused — evidence of cross-lingual semantic convergence.

Based on peer-reviewed research on AI-associated lexical shifts across 34 languages. Top overused words by language · the method and papers →