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by metadat 23 days ago
Don't forget about Contrastive Negation:

> Contrastive negation is a rhetorical structure that denies a specific idea in the first half of a sentence and asserts an alternative in the second half.

> It typically follows an "It’s not X, it’s Y" or "not just X, but Y" formula.

Wikipedia also has a great resource which covers many of the common LLM patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

3 comments

As someone who’s writing gets flagged as AI a lot, I appreciate the opening disclaimer section.

And I especially appreciate the idea that these patterns aren’t the problem. Don’t just fix the patterns. The problem is they point to hastily or carelessly written content.

That's in the post
How long until LLMs are taught to avoid the patterns in that wiki page?