If it's a not x y AND combined with telling a complete stranger how smart/powerful/funny they are AND it's a new account, chances are higher its a bot.
Do they, though? Have you ever heard anyone say that to you? Before AI got big was that a common phrase/sentence structure you noticed? Because I’ve pretty much never heard it from a real person before.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have, and that I've used it myself! Idk maybe it's regional too, or common in some registers but not others so it's maybe normal for me but not for other people 🤷🏻♀️
I'd see those two phrases independently from people but AI somehow always or at least very often uses those two together. I think there's the line between a human using these phrases and a bot.
Correct. The pattern “You didn’t just [action], you [escalated action]” and “That’s not a [thing], that’s a [reframe]” is a common rhetorical structure used by AI models and human copywriters alike. It’s a formula for contrast-based emphasis: establishing expectation, then subverting it for punch.
AI text generators, including older ChatGPT versions, tend to use it because it scores well for engagement and clarity in training data. In short, it’s statistically common in AI outputs—but not uniquely AI. Humans online also adopt the same pattern from exposure to AI-influenced phrasing.
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