“It’s not just _____, it’s _____”
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No. 375 | September 19th, 2025
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
AI is being ruined because everyone uses it and that means everyone now recognizes AI writing. Have you recently come across the negative parallelism “It’s not just _____, it’s ______”? That was very likely written by AI.
You can tell everything you need to know about its impact on any field by the explosion in the frequency of terms used in everything from academic abstracts to speeches to national parliaments.
Recently, this phenomenon was documented in the British House of Commons.
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat calls this out in a Commons speech:
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