active · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking
Part of the emerging plain-spoken-confidence cluster: sounding grounded and empirical without citing anything. 12× the human rate and rising across model generations.
◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.18 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)
…In practice, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a more effective anti-browning agent…
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 | 3.14 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.56 |
| hn | 5.66 | — | 0.48 | |
| cooking | 3.11 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.82 | — | 0.00 | |
| 0.00 | — | — |
literal: in practice