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I don't know the name of this rhetorical device, but I assure you it that using it is older than gpt


Yeah, a version of the construct famously ends the Albert Einstein copypasta, which is at least 10 years old at this point. Though I think stylistically it's considered bad writing, which is likely why it's so jarring when it starts to crop up in ChatGPT-generated text.




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