I am almost certain the “It’s not ___, it’s ___” AI writing style came from Chinese

Overview

A classic telltale sign of AI writing is the “it’s not…, it’s…” pair, but a lot of people are confused (me included) by where this came from. It’s not a very popular way to construct sentences in English, so it’s weird it became such a hallmark of AI writing. The other interesting thing is the pair produced by AI is rarely an antithesis or that different in meaning. For example, you’d expect a sentence starting with “it’s not a discovery, it’s…” to end with something in opposition, like “it’s a

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