active · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking
Part of the emerging plain-spoken-confidence cluster: sounding grounded and empirical without citing anything. 12× the human rate and rising across model generations.
◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.18 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)
…In practice, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a more effective anti-browning agent…
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-07-02 (run #3, 3 current + 3 vintage models)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 2.19 | 0.32 | 0.12 | 0.56 |
| hn | 3.83 | — | 0.26 | |
| cooking | 2.34 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.59 | — | 0.00 | |
| 0.00 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 3.14 | ×14 vs humans |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 2.19 | ×18 vs humans |
literal: in practice