saturated · construct · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking, parenting
Contrast framing — the most attested construct tell of the era: “It's not chaos, it's clarity.” Reports of its death were premature: our first small experiment suggested it was fading, but the larger multi-register corpus shows it at ~4.5× the human rate and *rising* across model generations. A good example of why we measure instead of assuming.
model specificity: cross-model; rising across generations
“This is not a rant. It's a reflection. It's not chaos, it's clarity.”
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-09-28 (run #15, 3 current + 3 vintage models)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 4.42 | 3.96 | 0.61 | 0.37 |
| hn | 5.04 | — | 0.77 | |
| cooking | 1.87 | — | 0.56 | |
| parenting | 3.85 | — | 0.40 | |
| 15.17 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 4.95 | ×4.9 vs humans |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 4.75 | ×3.9 vs humans |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 3.92 | ×4.7 vs humans |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 4.83 | ×4.3 vs humans |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 5.64 | ×7.2 vs humans |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 4.04 | ×3.4 vs humans |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 4.79 | ×6.4 vs humans |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 4.83 | ×3.8 vs humans |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 5.66 | ×5.0 vs humans |
| #11 | 2026-08-31 | 3.48 | ×3.2 vs humans |
| #12 | 2026-09-07 | 5.54 | ×5.7 vs humans |
| #13 | 2026-09-14 | 5.12 | ×6.4 vs humans |
| #14 | 2026-09-21 | 4.70 | ×4.0 vs humans |
| #15 | 2026-09-28 | 4.42 | ×7.2 vs humans |
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