active · construct · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking
The throat-clearing qualifier before a fact: “it's worth noting that…”. Models use “worth” itself at 13× the human rate.
…it's also worth noting that cooking high-quality meat requires a bit of care…
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 | 2.33 | 1.40 | 0.37 | 0.34 |
| hn | 5.24 | — | 0.77 | |
| cooking | 0.31 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.64 | — | 0.00 | |
| 0.00 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 2.51 | ×11 vs humans |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 3.14 | ×13 vs humans |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 2.70 | only in AI |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 2.26 | ×6.0 vs humans |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 2.63 | ×5.9 vs humans |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 2.64 | ×11 vs humans |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 3.40 | ×14 vs humans |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 3.87 | ×15 vs humans |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 2.33 | ×10 vs humans |
| #11 | 2026-08-31 | 2.86 | only in AI |
| #12 | 2026-09-07 | 3.72 | ×30 vs humans |
| #13 | 2026-09-14 | 2.71 | ×4.8 vs humans |
| #14 | 2026-09-21 | 2.27 | ×19 vs humans |
| #15 | 2026-09-28 | 2.33 | ×6.3 vs humans |
regex: \bworth (noting|mentioning|remembering|considering|asking)\b