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Comment by stevage | Hacker News Reader

There's nothing AI about that sentence.

You are oblivious to AI smells then. This is a very common AI writing pattern.

AI didn’t invent the em dash nor “It’s not just X, it’s Y” and sometimes those are appropriate for the situation. Prose should be judged accordingly.

Using both at the same time, tho? Eh.

LLM didn't invent it themselves, they are plagiarism machines. Obviously these kind of patterns had to be popular in the first place to be overused by LLMs

Also we have reached the point where LLMs are pubkishing more contents than humans so we have probably reached a point where humans will inconciously start copying and using LLMs style too.

c'mon, it's literally the top 2 AI writing tropes in a single sentence. i googled "AI tropes", and here are the first 2 tropes listed in the first search result:

1) negative parallelism: "It's not bold. It's backwards."

2) em-dash addiction: "The problem -- and this is the part nobody talks about -- is systemic."

again, i'm not saying the author wrote this sentence using AI. i was just tickled by how stereotypically AI it sounded. for better or for worse, those characteristics are just going to set off the AI detector in people's heads now, as evidenced by the fact that there are like 10 separate comments on this post that picked up on the exact same thing.

It's the stereotypical example of AI in my experience. I.e it's not this it's that.

It's a super common writing and speech pattern.

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