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Comment by refulgentis

14 hours ago

Closed it after “This house of cards only needs a $12 domain!”, right under “Sorry, Wikipedia.”, right under their Wikipedia edit.

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sdthjbvuiiijbb  13 hours ago

It's also clearly AI generated writing. That doesn't help its credibility or interest. I'm extremely suspicious of people who use AI to write an ostensibly personal blog, for all the usual obvious reasons.

  • apublicfrog  12 hours ago

    What are you basing that on? I'm usually pretty good at sniffing out AI writing, and it smells human to me.

    • sdthjbvuiiijbb  2 hours ago

      The line "This is the part that really matters." and the line "This is the circular citation pattern, and it’s one of the most under discussed attacks on the “retrieval augmented generation” trust model. " both raised flags. AI absolutely loves writing about the One Weird Trick that dentists don't want you to know. They love talking about "what really matters" or saying something is "the most under discussed" thing.

      Then we get to the section "Why This Is A Bigger Deal Than It Looks". The title of this section again raises similar flags to before. But the bulleted list of:

      1. The retrieval layer (immediately) 2. The model training corpus layer (months to years) 3. The agent layer (where the money is)

      Absolutely reeks of AI. This list with this sequence of parentheticals is exactly how LLMs write, both structurally and the specific phrasing. This was the point where I felt confident enough to publicly accuse the post of AI writing.

      I could go on with the prose in this section... How about "The attack surface is not hypothetical, it’s the default case."? Or "The cleanup problem for corpus poisoning is genuinely unsolved as of 2026."? (LLMs wildly overuse "genuine(ly)" and "real")

    • riffraff  6 hours ago

      I had the impression it was AI writing too because of the second half of the article. The first part looks genuine, the part since "trust laundering" smells fake: the scary single sentence followed by a whole paragraph of single clause sentences hints at AI.

      Perhaps we've all just become paranoid, but even if it's not LLMs writing this, it now puts me off. And the AI image at the top of the page does not help with the feeling.

    • chneu  7 hours ago

      Agreed. Nothing about this post really stood out as AI. It didn't raise a single flag for me.

      I think calling something AI generated is just a lazy way of dismissing stuff nowadays.

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