It’s not _____, it’s ______.

Some more conversation a week or so ago I had:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786962#44788567

That just seems like a rhetorical technique, which shows up in LLMspeak because people use it

I’ve talked to hundreds of humans online and only see that pattern once in a blue moon. In fact I just went thru the last 10 pages of my comments (and their replies, etc) and grepped for the phrase and the only time it’s been uttered has been in AI response examples like above.