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The story is credited to Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland. I've filtered out Edwards from my RSS reader a long time ago, his writing is terrible and extremely AI-en

The story is credited to Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland. I've filtered out Edwards from my RSS reader a long time ago, his writing is terrible and extremely AI-enthusiastic. No surprise he's behind an AI-generated story.

christkv 8mo ago
Is he even a real person I wonder
- morkalork 8mo ago
  He was murdered on a Condé Nast corporate retreat and they have been using an AI in his likeness to write articles ever since!
  - christkv 8mo ago
    Would make for a good book, company hires famous writer, trains an ai on them, tortures them to sign over their likeness rights and then murders them. Keeps up appearances of life via video gen, voice gen and writing gen.
    - morkalork 8mo ago
      Almost the plot of The Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
      - christkv 8mo ago
        Going on my to watch list
tocitadel 8mo ago
Also filtered out the following slop generators from my RSS feed, which significantly enhanced my reading experience: Jonathan M. Gitlin Ashley Belanger Jon Brodkin I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors.
- stavros 8mo ago
  > I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors. Twenty years ago?
cubefox 8mo ago
> his writing is terrible and extremely AI-enthusiastic I disagree, his writings are generally quite good. For example, in a recent article [1] on a hostile Gemini distillation attempt, he gives a significant amount of background, including the relevant historical precedent of Alpaca, which almost any other journalist wouldn't even know about. 1: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/attackers-prompted-gemini-over-100000-times-while-trying-to-clone-it-google-says/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/attackers-prompted-gemini...
- lich_king 8mo ago
  For what it's worth, both the article you're linking to and the one this story is about are immediately flagged by AI text checkers as LLM-generated. These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're wrong.
  - GaggiX 8mo ago
    >These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're wrong. Based on what in particular? The only time I have used them is to have a laugh.
    - lich_king 8mo ago
      Based on experience, including a good number of experiments I've done with known-LLM output and contemporary, known-human text. Try them for real and be surprised. Some of the good, state-of-the-art tools include originality.ai and Pangram. A lot of people on HN have preconceived notions here based on stories they read about someone being unfairly accused of plagiarism or people deliberately triggering failure modes in these programs, and that's basically like dismissing the potential of LLMs because you read they suggested putting glue on a pizza once.
      - GaggiX 8mo ago
        I had fun with AI detectors in particular for images, even the best one (Hive in my opinion) was failing miserably with my tests, maybe the one trained on text are better but I find it hard to trust them, in particular if someone know how to fiddle with them.

christkv 8mo ago

Is he even a real person I wonder

morkalork 8mo ago
He was murdered on a Condé Nast corporate retreat and they have been using an AI in his likeness to write articles ever since!
- christkv 8mo ago
  Would make for a good book, company hires famous writer, trains an ai on them, tortures them to sign over their likeness rights and then murders them. Keeps up appearances of life via video gen, voice gen and writing gen.
  - morkalork 8mo ago
    Almost the plot of The Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
    - christkv 8mo ago
      Going on my to watch list

tocitadel 8mo ago

Also filtered out the following slop generators from my RSS feed, which significantly enhanced my reading experience: Jonathan M. Gitlin Ashley Belanger Jon Brodkin I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors.

stavros 8mo ago
> I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors. Twenty years ago?

cubefox 8mo ago

> his writing is terrible and extremely AI-enthusiastic I disagree, his writings are generally quite good. For example, in a recent article [1] on a hostile Gemini distillation attempt, he gives a significant amount of background, including the relevant historical precedent of Alpaca, which almost any other journalist wouldn't even know about. 1: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/attackers-prompted-gemini-over-100000-times-while-trying-to-clone-it-google-says/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/attackers-prompted-gemini...

lich_king 8mo ago
For what it's worth, both the article you're linking to and the one this story is about are immediately flagged by AI text checkers as LLM-generated. These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're wrong.
- GaggiX 8mo ago
  >These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're wrong. Based on what in particular? The only time I have used them is to have a laugh.
  - lich_king 8mo ago
    Based on experience, including a good number of experiments I've done with known-LLM output and contemporary, known-human text. Try them for real and be surprised. Some of the good, state-of-the-art tools include originality.ai and Pangram. A lot of people on HN have preconceived notions here based on stories they read about someone being unfairly accused of plagiarism or people deliberately triggering failure modes in these programs, and that's basically like dismissing the potential of LLMs because you read they suggested putting glue on a pizza once.
    - GaggiX 8mo ago
      I had fun with AI detectors in particular for images, even the best one (Hive in my opinion) was failing miserably with my tests, maybe the one trained on text are better but I find it hard to trust them, in particular if someone know how to fiddle with them.