The Rise of Verbal Tics in Large Language Models: A Systematic Analysis Across Frontier Models

ArXi:2604.19139v1 Announce Type: cross As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitutional AI, a growing and increasingly conspicuous phenomenon has emerged: the proliferation of verbal tics -- repetitive, formulaic linguistic patterns that pervade model outputs.