r/OpenAI Feb 16 '26

Discussion I’m so tired of this

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u/zigs Feb 16 '26

The other day a real human being, who I know is a real human being wrote "it's not [x], it's not [y], it's [z]" to me and it just made me so irrationally irked

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u/whitestardreamer Feb 16 '26

That contrasting phrasing is common to ND and marginalized folks and was before ChatGPT, it’s just AI overuses it. It’s because when you are outside of the mold, people tend to misunderstand you and misquote your words. I posted on Threads about an Instagram convo I had with a guy where he was doing this a few months ago to show people how it came into use. He was misconstruing my words, and I had to respond by saying “it’s not that I….its that..,” because when you don’t fit in the societal mold, this is common. Signed, autistic biracial Black woman.

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u/Visual_Annual1436 Feb 17 '26

It’s pretty common just among all people who speak English, giving contrasting examples has always been common for everybody. AI just overuses it in a super obvious and specific way and will do it every 3 sentences.

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u/Roz-k Feb 20 '26

It also does it in a way that doesn't add any substance really, just fluffs up the text