Applesause

I can imagine a lot of other stuff it might be.

Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It's all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That's all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-is-changing-the-words-we-use-in-conversation/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/chatgpt-claude-chatbots-language/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-people-actually-are-starting-to-talk-like-chatgpt/

https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage

chatgpt favored a few articles in its training data that used "its not x – its y" more than others. it was sheer accident and coincidence to begin with, but is now being cemented into the language by chatgpt's relative ubiquity and a feedback mechanism where new training data contains this artifact, increasing its favorability in subsequent models. I'm not saying that the phrase didn't exist before chatgpt. it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – It's a feedback mechanism. The same feedback mechanism causes it to prefer "it's not" vs "it isn't" despite there being no grammatical distinction between them. "It's not" was presumably slightly more popular among the training data it (or rather, its trainers) happened to favor during initial training. The same feedback mechanism causes it to write metaphor like a bored, not-particularly-bright college student in a poetry class they're taking just for the credit.

edit: shibboleth

more edits: everything after "it's not a seismic shift in language patterns – it's a feedback mechanism"

Woe unto them. They sound like ChatGPT now.

Don't tell me how to live my life.

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goddamn am i sick and fucking tired of slam journalism. if this clown wasnt set to shame in restraint for three hours at noon for the entire city to jeer and throw muck at i dont want to hear anything about a fucking pillory.

I saw that and assumed it was an onion headline...

Is nobel pretty corrupt?

slop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)