retired · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking, parenting
The original. The word that launched a thousand detector threads in 2023–24. Absent from every current model we measure. Rest in peace.
Zero occurrences in our current-model corpora. Seeing it in fresh text suggests an old model, a cheap model, or a human joke.
model specificity: 2023–24 model generations
◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.46 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)
“Let's delve into the fascinating world of sourdough.” (2023-era)
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-08-17 (run #10, 3 current + 3 vintage models)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 0.00 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 0.00 | |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 0.00 | |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 0.06 | only in AI |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 0.00 | |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 0.00 | |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 0.00 | |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 0.00 | |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 0.00 | |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 0.00 |
literal: delve