AI & Content Glossary

Key concepts in AI content detection and content quality, explained simply.

AI tell

A pattern that reveals text was written by AI.

Burstiness

The variation in sentence length and complexity.

Perplexity

How predictable a text is to a language model.

E-E-A-T

Google's content quality framework.

Helpful Content

Google's people-first content system.

AI humanizer

A tool or process to make AI text sound human.

False positive

When a detector wrongly flags human text as AI.

Hallucination

When an AI confidently states false information.

LLM

A large language model that generates text.

Paraphrasing

Rewriting text with different words but same meaning.

Watermark

A hidden statistical mark placed in AI output.

Humanize

The process of making AI text read as human.

Translation smell

Artificiality from literal English-to-Turkish patterns.

SEO

Optimizing content to rank in search engines.

AI Overview

Google's AI-generated answer summary in search.

Prompt

The instruction given to an AI model.