It's Not X, It's Y: Why AI Chatbots Pick Weird Favorite Phrases

This week, Kimberly and Jessica dig into the AI writing tic everyone's noticed and nobody can fully explain: "it's not X, it's Y." They discuss The Atlantic's new piece on the phrase, then bring Kimberly's informal research from a publicly available corpus of 24-billion words of online news to show the construction is spiking right alongside "crucial" and "quietly." From there the conversation turns to what's actually at stake, including published work pulled from publication because it "soun...