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I mean probably not. It's not 1,400 hardcore engineers and 200 Jony Ives being let go, it's a mix of everyone including randoms like HR and the person who orders the office coffee. Business is not good.

Okay I just wrote an "it's not, it's..." organically, is this the zeitgeist or what.

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It's not a zeitgeist, it's a common English sentence structure.

The em-dash observation makes sense. Obviously a minority of people reach for an actual em-dash. The "it's not X, it's Y" complaint is totally bonkers. We might as well call proper spelling a "sign of AI". I.e. yes, AI does it more than humans, but not by so much that it makes sense to be suspicious when you see it.


No one actually used that as a red flag except the OP themselves facetiously so that’s a bad example.

The AI version of what they wrote would be more like:

  People have the wrong idea about who is getting fired. It’s not John Ive. It’s Jan ordering coffee.



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