[protonbob]

> I was not just counting clicks; I was watching behavior.

> This was not the obvious spam that gets filtered out. This was sophisticated bot traffic designed to fool standard analytics platforms.

> Humans are messy; these bots were clinically precise.

AI slop writing is so tiresome. At least it is somewhat noticeable.

[Nasrudith]

That just looks like 'writer over-educated in grammar above and beyond fluency, to the point they know how to use semicolons properly'. AI writer detection is just a new manifestation of superstition's origins as spurious pattern matching.

[dandellion]

Well, as a foreign English speaker I have to thank you for calling me over-educated in grammar above and beyond fluency in a language that is not my own. But aside from that I can tell you that those sentences are either written by AI, and in the minuscule possibility that they weren't, the author must have been intentionally writing to sound like AI for the sake of being post-ironic. The second I saw the first sentence I knew it was AI and came straight to the comments to look for the thread of someone complaining so I could pile on.

PS: For what it's worth, I still think the article was moderately interesting, even if lazily and poorly written by delegating the task to an AI.