Introduction
Are your words giving away the AI behind the curtain?
With AI shaking up content creation, it’s time to tackle those awkward phrases that scream **“robotic!”**
Join us in today’s episode of **Content Universe** as we chat with Mikkel Svold, founder of Montanus. We’re diving deep into the words that can sabotage your writing, pulling insights from SEO Twix’s must-know list of **100 overused AI terms.**
But we’re not just avoiding clichés.
Mikkel will share killer strategies to keep your writing **fluent and engaging**—perfect for high-knowledge audiences who crave substance!
Ditch the rigid, rule-based writing and learn how to craft compelling content without losing your professional voice.
Let’s explore when to embrace AI’s strengths while ensuring your message remains **authentically yours.**
Excited? Hit play and let’s revolutionize your marketing content strategy together! Don’t forget to share this with your team—let’s build a vocab list to elevate your storytelling! 🎙️✨
What You’ll Learn
– Words revealing AI-generated content to look out for.
– Strategies to avoid common AI-generated text pitfalls.
– When it’s okay to use AI-suggested words.
– Balancing complexity and professionalism with AI.
– Crafting an AI prompt to minimize unwanted language.
Episode Transcript (AI Generated)
Hello and welcome to the Content Universe! Today I want to talk about common AI used words, or common phrases that AI uses that kind of give away that your text is AI generated. Now I am today stealing 100% a list of 100 words that SEO Twix with an x in the end put online. And basically what I did was I just, honest to god, I just googled AI words to avoid And that was the one that came up. So good on you for taking your own W.O. medicineyer Twix. Thank you so much and I want to try and share with with you guys listening out there What sorts of words that you kind of want to avoid or that you kind of want to think about the use of when you are using AI to create an article.
Now I want to list up just real quick some other words that I really find super annoying but then also I want to go through what you can do and like a little bonus consideration in the end. Okay, so hang in there. For those of you who don’t know, I am Mikkel Svold and I’m the owner and founder of Montanus and at Montanus we produce content for high knowledge companies, so that could be engineering companies. It can be, you know, technical advisers those kind of people all those. Often times they’ve invented something really cool and they want to kind of tell the world about it. That we do through podcast episodes not so much like this one, but more like interview episodes and social media stuff, blog posts all this kind of stuff. So obviously you can imagine that the new world—oh, that’s such an AI phrase—that the new world of AI and large language models and all of these, you know, new friends that we all have, this world is something that is helping us at Montanus quite a lot in our business. And obviously, I think you’d be, or at least in my opinion, it’d be kind of stupid not to embark on this journey of AI.
Now some of the words that I just used actually it wasn’t even that intentional a little bit. But not that intentional. Those are on my list off and on my list. Sorry sales twixt. Those are on the list of words that you really want to consider using. Okay, now sales twix they have this list and I want to just like really speed read through some of them. I’m probably not gonna go all the way to 100 because then you guys will be completely confused and dizzy. But they write the list of words that are undesirable to use in website content. Alright, are you guys ready? See if I can rap my way through it.
Okay, let’s go. Dive, delve into dazzling, enhance, discover, divine, unveiling, comprehensive, inquire, discern, vigilance, in conclusion, embark, journey. I just used those two. Did you hear that? Otherwise, like go back. Okay, we continue and elevate, evolution, shift, prevailing, unleash, let us embark on a journey of that. I think that I was actually what I just said. Anyway, unveil, elucidate. Wow. That’s a good word. Leverage, utilize. I use that all the time. Strategize, strategist. That seems like something that some people would be able, like would want to say innovate. I think the word innovate is, it’s not like worn out because of AI, it’s worn out because of, you know, even just companies called it innovate, kind of like knock all words of in a way like in nove or like innovate or you know all these kinds of. Okay anyway, synthesis. I love that word. I love that word anyway, cultivate, expedite, expedite. I’m not sure I pronounce that right if I do give me a thumbs up and if I don’t let me know how it is. Mitigate is also on the list if advocate, exemplify, validate, engage, envision, speculate, impound. Wow juxtapose, juxtapose, such a such a beautiful word, beautiful word juxtapose. I think that’s probably gonna be enough. Oh there’s one more benchmark. Benchmark. It’s a good one as well. Transmute. I don’t even know what that means or transform.
Alright these words guys I agree, I agree that these words are pretty common in AI generated text especially the delvin I think maybe maybe it’s there somewhere on the list But I think that the word era is also it should also be on the list I think there’s there there are a couple of ways to kind of mitigate the use of these kinds of words, and now I just used another one of them mitigate. That was on the list too I think what you can do in your prompt you can either in your direct prompt that works sometimes. But you can kind of list the words that you want to avoid and then just tell it that this is you know this is your red flag a list of words. Don’t write them you can do that that kind of works but it also doesn’t really work. What you can also do is you can have your AI write whatever text that you were doing and then afterwards you can have an editor AI so to say you can you can prompt the AI to be the editor of the text and then to kind of erase out those red flag words that we just listed and and I’m guessing also the 50 to 70 other words that we didn’t that we didn’t that I didn’t read aloud.
What I really do want you guys to think about because I think this is this is and I’m sorry again SEO twixt, I know I’m it there you know hundreds of these kinds of episodes or not not episodes these kinds of lists so I could have chosen another one and I’m sorry for like putting you out there I hope you get a lot of like traffic from this at least anyway thank you for sharing your. You okay? You know what I mean where I’m at is a list of a hundred words and you can find different lists with different hundred words a list of a hundred words that an AI cannot use. I think is kind of black and white. It’s sometimes you really just want to write discover sometimes you want to write vigilance. And I think we really need to be careful when putting up this kind of rule-based way of writing to you AI. You got to be careful not to dumb down your language too much because what is fairly obvious to me is that many of these words they are words that have somewhat of a higher LIX number. I don’t know if LIX number is actually also an English thing or like an international thing but it is at least a Danish thing where you kind of count the complexity. It’s a measurement of complexity of the speech and what I really think that you should also consider before just plotting in this list of red flag words into your do not use prompt. I really think you should consider what will this do to the complexity and the professionalism and the tone of voice so to say off your piece. And now I know that I did attack the tone of voice the business casual tone of voice in an early episode of course. Go back and listen to that if you if you agree or don’t agree but I really do think that you should be careful when you read these kinds of texts. But also I’m I just don’t agree that you can list a bunch of words and then say you can never use these words because sometimes the words just make sense and also sometimes you use specific words of a specific complexity either to lift the complexity level or to lift the the what’s it called it like the cognitive level of the of the text or you can use the different words to create some kind of variants in your in your piece, and I really do think that there’s a lot of these words that that they shouldn’t be on the list. What they should be there should be maybe on a list that a list not another list of words to avoid but a list of words to keep at a minimum right because I know that if you write expedite or synthesis. I know that those words it would probably be better to write, you know combine or or expedite what what they say that’s called accelerate or speed up. I think that makes sense. It makes sense but sometimes it also just makes sense to shuffle the words around to create a better rhythm in your piece of content.
So all of these very fashionable you can find them all over these lists of words that you can’t use. Look them through. You know recognize if your text contains a lot of them or in the case of oftentimes my blog post you know when an AI writes them it starts out with in the era of or in the world of or in an era where or in the realm of like that beginning sentence that’s annoying right because it’s nearly every time so that is annoying so once you get to know your AI a little bit better I would say that you can easily recognize the words that are coming on again and again and again, and the complex words that are not helping your text at all. So that should be the goal in my opinion.
Alright, that is it for today’s Content Universe check-in. I hope you enjoyed and let me know in the comments what words you try and avoid that will be really interesting to see if we can make our own little list of avoidable words or maybe even better what words should you use? I can tell you one thing, synthesize. I think it was synthesize that was one of the words that I had a bet with one of my friends in high school where all of my assignments in high school could contain that one word. I think it was synthesizer or something like that. Well anyway, thank you so much for listening, share with your colleagues and friends if they would like to listen and give us a thumbs up give us a like give us a star review and yeah, click the subscribe button all of this, you know. And also, of course, if you want to please do reach out to me at montanus.co. Alright, that’s it for now. See you at another planet in the Content Universe.