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It's not just a reflex, it's disappointment

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art said it better than I ever could

Well said! "It's not just a reflex, it's disappointment" isn't just a pithy turn of phrase--it's a *new paradigm* of English language phraseology.

Okay, you guys are funny, because "it's not x, it's y" (or "it's not just x, it's also y) is probably the most characteristic post-2023 LLM writing quirk.

These days, though, it's not as common as it used to be. Kimi K2, in particular, is a weirdly good and stylistically flexible writer.

Hey, i used em-dashes long before they got appropriated by AI!

How sad, what it does to us.

Yup. I'm not sure if the person I replied to was going for that, but as soon as I see anything like it I hate to say my mind instantly jumps to AI, along with its grandiosity. I guess it might already be able to write like a normal person by default and I haven't noticed. Haven't heard of Kimi K2

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