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Research2026-07-24 · source-backed
Federico Boggia identifies epanorthosis, the self-correction figure catalogued by Cicero and Quintilian, as systematically overrepresented in LLM output. This is the structure behind the widely-mocked "it's not just X, it's Y." The paper proposes targeted mitigation rather than generic "sound more human" prompting, which is what makes it useful if you ship model-written content.
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