You can’t have a meaningful conversation with ChatGPT without the use of nouns. After all, they serve as the primary identifiers for people, places, things, and ideas.
However, this otherwise intelligent chatbot has a tendency to use the same nouns over and over again. When you become aware of this repetition, you start to feel like you’re interacting with a brainless bot rather than a supercomputer.
If any of these overused nouns ring true in your own interactions with ChatGPT, I highly recommend instructing the chatbot to avoid using them, so that your AI-generated texts are more organic and human.
1. Advent
Even if you don’t ask ChatGPT for a history lesson, it will try to give you one anyway. But that’s just the nature of this chatbot: it wants to give you as much information as possible. You can fully expect it to use the noun ‘advent’ when talking about the arrival of something significant e.g. “The advent of the internet revolutionized communication worldwide.”
2. Nuance
A lot of users seek out AI chatbots for summaries and brief overviews etc., but ChatGPT is always keen to demonstrate a granular understanding of a given topic or concept, and it does so by discussing the nuances.
3. Trajectory
If you ask ChatGPT anything related to trends, developments, or the direction or path of something over time, it will reach for the noun ‘trajectory’ without fail. To be fair, this word is used to death in the real world too, and when you consider that ChatGPT is trained on human-written content, it makes sense that it has latched onto it.
4. Nexus
Connecting all the dots is one of ChatGPT’s many strengths, and in the event it identifies a common denominator, you can expect it to make a beeline for ‘nexus’ e.g. “The shared experience of loss became the nexus that bound them together.”
5. Dance
Maybe ChatGPT was trained on too much poetry, because it certainly has an unhealthy obsession with metaphors, and ‘dance’ seems to be a favorite when it comes to metaphorical usages of nouns. If two variables are closely linked, ChatGPT will call it a “delicate dance” or something similar.
6. Forefront
There are plenty of words you can use to describe someone or something that has made a big impact on the world, but you can bet the house on ChatGPT going with ‘forefront’ every time, as in “at the forefront of the environmental movement”.
7. Pitfalls
Like humans, ChatGPT tends to conduct a binary analysis when presenting certain kinds of information i.e. explore the pros and cons. It’s also a very cautious chatbot by design, so it never holds back on warning users about potential problems they may face. Both of these features combined has made ‘pitfalls’ a commonly used ChatGPT noun.
8. Celebration
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having a positive attitude towards everything, but it would be nice if ChatGPT could tone it down a little depending on the topic at hand. This chatbot is forever saying that X is a ‘celebration’ of Y and Z…
9. Insights
ChatGPT often promises users it will find “valuable insights” when introducing a topic. It’s actually a really good way to indicate that you’re about to perform a deep dive into the subject matter and present the findings in a manner that is tailored to the user’s needs.
10. Breakthrough
Always aiming for dramatic effect, the noun ‘breakthrough’ crops up very frequently in AI-generated texts. This is probably a refection of what many people use the tool for—think young school children learning about significant figures throughout history, especially in relation to medical or scientific discoveries.