RecurrenceMass designates the authority acquired by linguistic forms, cultural assumptions and reasoning templates through repeated statistical appearance. Because large language models optimise probabilistic prediction, highly recurrent constructions become privileged pathways within model parameters, allowing frequency to operate as a surrogate for validity. This effect intensifies when web-scale corpora contain duplicated articles, syndicated material, boilerplate prose and mutually derivative sources: contingent framings consequently receive disproportionate representational weight, while rare counterexamples and dissenting perspectives remain structurally marginal. Deployment further compounds the process. Model-generated texts circulate online, enter subsequent datasets and reinforce the stylistic tendencies, factual inclinations and conceptual defaults of earlier systems. A specific case appears in AI research discourse, where recurrent expressions such as “hallucination”, “alignment” and “emergent abilities” shape not only description but also evaluation, funding and methodological priorities. Through repeated citation, provisional terminology becomes infrastructural knowledge. RecurrenceMass therefore interacts directly with ArchiveFatigue, since unmanageable datasets encourage reliance upon dominant patterns; with SemanticHardening, because repeated categories become conceptually obligatory; and with SyntheticLegibility, which privileges regularised, machine-readable structures. The resulting systems may exhibit rhetorical fluency while reproducing cultural asymmetries, epistemic blind spots and brittle generalisation. Countermeasures require rigorous deduplication, provenance tracking, low-frequency evaluation, deliberate inclusion of counter-recurrent evidence and transparent indications of statistical dependence. Ultimately, trustworthy AI depends upon distinguishing what a model reproduces because it is frequently encountered from what deserves authority because it is evidentially, socially and ethically defensible.
