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by 0_____0 201 days ago
It's ad copy style. Humans have been writing like that for decades but it's not naturalistic construction.

Not sure who you talk to, but the 'It's Not Just X, It's Y' format doesn't show up in everyday speech (caveat, in my experience).

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this. marketing speak appears much more frequently in online text, which is what AI is trained on, than it does in normal everyday human speech that AI isn't able to capture and train on en masse yet.
Are you distinguishing between speech and writing? I'd agree on the former - that no-one talks that way.
I find it kind of common, used as a riff off of patterns in advertising and post-politics.
It’s not universal - but it’s a compelling rhetorical device /s

It just sounds like slop as it’s everywhere now. The pattern invites questions on the authenticity of the writer, and whether they’ve fallen victim to AI hallucinations and sycophant. I can quickly become offended when someone asks me to read their ChatGPT output without disclosing it was gpt output.

Now when AI learns how to use parallelism I will be forced to learn a new style of writing to maintain credibility with the reader /s