saturated · discourse · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin
The announcement voice: “Grateful and excited to share that…”, “Humbled to announce…”. The oldest LinkedIn cliché family — humans invented it, models industrialized it. As a slop linter we flag it whoever wrote it.
**Grateful and excited to share that I've been promoted to VP of Marketing!** 🎉
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-07 (run #2: 3 current + 3 vintage models, 3 matched registers, 1,392 samples)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 0.70 | 1.10 | 0.00 | 0.06 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 6.52 | — | — |
regex: \b(excited|thrilled|honored|humbled|grateful|proud)(,? (and|&) \w+)? to (share|announce)\b