AI Writing Tells Bingo
Twenty-five real AI clichés, pulled straight from the 758-entry corpus behind our Slop Checker. Click a square when you spot one in the wild, a LinkedIn post, a press release, the fourth paragraph of a ChatGPT answer.
We built a 758-entry corpus of AI writing clichés for the Slop Checker, our free tool that scores your draft against real, catalogued AI tells. Then somebody on the team (me, it was me) said the corpus deserved a version you could play during a boring Zoom.
So: bingo. Twenty-five squares of the exact phrases AI models reach for when they're padding a sentence, not writing one. Print it, screenshot it, keep it open in a tab. Next time you're reading a LinkedIn post, a press release, or the fourth paragraph of a ChatGPT answer, start marking squares.
Full confession: at least six of these squares have shown up in an AIStoryHub draft at some point, caught by the corpus before it shipped, not by a human reading closely enough to notice. "Nestled in the heart of" got into a location description for a fantasy village once. Nobody's village is nestled in a heart. Villages sit in valleys, or on hills, or nowhere in particular.
Play with a friend. Loser buys coffee, or, if you're both writers, loser has to use "underscoring the importance of" unironically in their next piece.
If your own draft is hiding a full row without you noticing, the Slop Checker will find it faster than your officemate will. It's free, doesn't send your writing anywhere, and won't judge you. Much.