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Another red flag is that the article used repetitive phrases in an AI-like way:

"...it illustrates exactly the kind of unsupervised output that makes open source maintainers wary."

followed later on by

"[It] illustrates exactly the kind of unsupervised behavior that makes open source maintainers wary of AI contributions in the first place."

I used to be skeptical that AI generated text could be reliably detected, but after a couple years of reading it, there are cracks starting to form in that skepticism.

Gen AI only produces hallucinations (confabulations).

The utility is that the infrenced output tends to be right much more often than wrong for mainstream knowledge.

You could read the original blog post...

How could that prove hallucinations? It could only possibly prove that they are not. If the quotes are in the original post then they are not hallucinations. If they are not in the post they could be caused by something is not a LLM.

Misquotes and fabricated quotes have existed long before AI, And indeed, long before computers.