The "not X, it's Y" creates dramatic tension, "It wasn't a pimple, it was a tumor", but fucking AI overuses it for everything like they're doing a fucking TED-talk, despite being vapid, e.g. "This isn't a plan to spend half a day in New York, this is an itinerary for the best of what the city's history and culture has to offer."

Also: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaQwB1IOdhx/

Not that most TED talks aren't vapid: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-nee...

That link you gave is interesting.

My take on it is that you would get the exact same effect if 5 human writers happened to become elevated above all other writers in popularity. Then people would notice their tendencies and hate on them, "those damn big 5 human writers always use simile rather than metaphor", or whatever. I guess what i'm trying to say, is that we are annoyed by the tendency of just 5 specific LLM writers, who have the very human characteristic of having biases, tendencies, and crutches that they overuse.