active · construct · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin
The fragment-pair reveal: “Not because I'm done. Because I'm finally starting.” Rare per-post but essentially exclusive to slop — zero hits across all human corpora including the canon.
Not because I'm done. Because I'm finally starting.
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 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 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 | 0.07 | only in AI |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 0.06 | only in AI |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 0.06 | ×0.5 vs humans |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 0.08 | only in AI |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 0.00 | |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 0.08 | only in AI |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 0.08 | only in AI |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 0.00 |
regex: \bnot because [^.!?\n]{2,60}[.…]\s*(but )?because\b