Comment by Starlevel004
2 days ago
"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it.
The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
Yeah it’s basically the prose equivalent of getting too much radio play - hilarious how the breakthrough of LLM content has ‘ruined’ “it’s not X—it’s Y” for so many of us now
Maybe, like overplayed pop songs, in 20 years or so we’ll come around to viewing the phrase fondly.
Thanks for the Wikipedia tip.
I see, thx for the article too!
I think I'll actually post the article here, quite useful
> "Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs ...
It's a bit of a "Karen AI" telltale sign. It's probably been trained on a lot of "I-know-it-all-Karen" posts and as a result we're bombarded with Karen-slop.