[Kwpolska]

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]

Is he even a real person I wonder

[morkalork]

He was murdered on a Condé Nast corporate retreat and they have been using an AI in his likeness to write articles ever since!

[cubefox]

> 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...

[lich_king]

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.

[tocitadel]

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]

> I wonder how soon I will be forced to whitelist only a handful of seasoned authors.

Twenty years ago?