Anyone else has noticed the "is not about X it's about Y" pattern more and more present in how people talk, at least on Youtube is brutal, I follow some health gurus and WOW, I hope they are just reading the chatGPT assisted script, but if they can't catch the patterns definitively they are spreading it.
I refuse to get contaminated with this speech pattern, so I try to rephrase when needed to say what it is, not what is not and then what it is, if that makes sense.
Some examples in the AI rant :
> Not because it was wrong. Not because it broke anything. Not because the code was bad.
> This isn’t about quality. This isn’t about learning. This is about control.
> This isn’t just about one closed PR. It’s about the future of AI-assisted development.
Probably there are more, and I start feeling like an old person when people talk to me like this and I complain, to then refuse to continue the conversation, but I feel like I'm the grumpy asshole.
It's not about AI changing how we talk, it's about the cringe that it produces and the suspicion that the speech was AI generated. ( this one was on propose )
I didn't see it as a changed pattern of speech, more like more texts/scripts edited or written by LLMs.
But I could be wrong, I am from a non-English speaking country, where everybody around me has English as a second language. I assume that patterns like this would take longer to grow in my environment than in an English-speaking environment.
I think this is based on training from sites like reddit. Highly active and pseudo-intellectual redditors have had a habit of speaking in patterns like this for many years in my experience. It is grating and I hope I never pick up the habit from LLMs or real people.
As someone who grades and works with college students in writing classes, it's (for better or for worse) not a big change... in the old days I'd give critical feedback on "SAT English" in essays, and now I give critical feedback on "robotic language".
I refuse to get contaminated with this speech pattern, so I try to rephrase when needed to say what it is, not what is not and then what it is, if that makes sense.
Some examples in the AI rant :
> Not because it was wrong. Not because it broke anything. Not because the code was bad.
> This isn’t about quality. This isn’t about learning. This is about control.
> This isn’t just about one closed PR. It’s about the future of AI-assisted development.
Probably there are more, and I start feeling like an old person when people talk to me like this and I complain, to then refuse to continue the conversation, but I feel like I'm the grumpy asshole.
It's not about AI changing how we talk, it's about the cringe that it produces and the suspicion that the speech was AI generated. ( this one was on propose )