A guide to stopping your AI behaving badly

Stop your AI churning out rubbish, robotic content and get it writing like your own ghostwriter.

The 50+ words and formats that tell your reader a machine wrote it.

WHY YOUR AI SOUNDS LIKE THAT

You can swap the tool. You can rewrite the prompt. It still reads as AI.

The words are what give you away.

There are phrases that tell every reader you didn’t write this. Your audience knows. They might not be able to name the reason, but they feel it, and they keep scrolling.

Patterns turn a specific, credible voice into something interchangeable with every other post in the feed. Most people writing with AI have no idea which ones they’re using.

I built this list from three years of training AI on real client work. The words that pull your voice out without you noticing, and the formats that read as generated to anyone who has been online since 2023.

This is the list I wish someone had handed me on day one.

Get the list before you publish anything else this week.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

Copy and paste instructions for your AI

The words that give AI away. 50+ of them, and readers clock them before they’ve finished the sentence.
The structural tells, so you know why AI copy feels wrong even when the words look fine.
The 2026 tell that has nothing to do with a single banned word.
Copy and paste instructions that work on any LLM, whether you write in Claude or ChatGPT.
A read-back pass for everything you’ve already published, so you can catch what your audience has been noticing.

Open the guide and paste the instructions into whatever you write in. The next thing you put out comes back sounding like you.

draft · written with AI

The ban list0 caught

…and 50+ more your reader already clocks.

WHO PUT THIS TOGETHER

Chanelle

Why I made this list.

I have used Claude for copywriting since 2023, back when you needed a VPN to reach it from South Africa and there was no paid plan to buy. Three years of testing later, this is what I kept.

I’m an online business strategist and AI integrator. I work with experienced women who sell their expertise, and I build the AI systems that keep their voice intact.

Everything on this list came out of real client work, on copy that had to earn its place.