saturated · construct · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: genres
Unsolicited therapeutic reassurance in non-therapeutic contexts — a business article that suddenly comforts you: “You're not imagining it. You're not broken.”
“You're not imagining it — hiring really has slowed.”
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 | 0.08 | 0.73 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 1.18 | — | — |
| run | date | AI /10k | vs humans |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 2026-07-02 | 0.00 | |
| #3 | 2026-07-02 | 0.22 | only in AI |
| #4 | 2026-07-06 | 0.18 | only in AI |
| #5 | 2026-07-13 | 0.19 | only in AI |
| #6 | 2026-07-20 | 0.15 | only in AI |
| #7 | 2026-07-27 | 0.08 | only in AI |
| #8 | 2026-08-03 | 0.23 | only in AI |
| #9 | 2026-08-10 | 0.24 | only in AI |
| #10 | 2026-08-17 | 0.08 | only in AI |
regex: \byou'?re not (alone|imagining (it|things)|broken|crazy|failing)\b