[dado3212]

What makes you say that? This didn't read like AI slop to me.

[Nextgrid]

Overuse of bulleted lists, unnecessary sensationalism, sentences like "The requests flew. There was no WAF, no IP blocking, no CAPTCHA." and so on. It reeks of someone pasting some notes into a chat prompt and asking it to spruce it up for publication.

[PKop]

Pattern recognition skill issue then. It did to me.

"The fallout"

This flaw was critical.

And other vibes. You know it when you see it, though it may be hard to define.

[mmooss]

> You know it when you see it

How do you know your perception is accurate? One of humanity's biggest weaknesses is trusting that kind of response.

[sallveburrpi]

What is the AI slop version of “This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.”

?

[tverbeure]

> This incident is a stark reminder

A stark reminder is a stark reminder about the existence of AI slop. You see the phrase a lot in social media comment spam.

[delfinom]

There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.

[dboreham]

Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.