After late '22 I noticed a surge in superlatives like "vital", "essential", "crucial", and "pivotal" in essays and cover letters from students. ChatGPT uses words like these whenever you ask it to write an essay, and it's a dead giveaway. It's ruined the legitimate uses of the words.
Pick one of the Google Scholar results from the article and you'll find something awful like this (the start of the second paper): "The carriage of goods under international commercial law is a complex and essential aspect of international trade."
Pick one of the Google Scholar results from the article and you'll find something awful like this (the start of the second paper): "The carriage of goods under international commercial law is a complex and essential aspect of international trade."