active · construct · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin
The fragment-pair reveal: “Not because I'm done. Because I'm finally starting.” Rare per-post but essentially exclusive to slop — zero hits across all human corpora including the canon.
Not because I'm done. Because I'm finally starting.
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 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| hn | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
| 0.00 | — | — |
regex: \bnot because [^.!?\n]{2,60}[.…]\s*(but )?because\b