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This website has four articles, once daily, three of which being AI crap and doomsaying (the fourth arguably too, it just doesn't say so), all with lines like:

> A fast car doesn't win races — a driver does

> the gap is not just speed - it's output quality

> A rewrite isn't just an opportunity to modernise your technology stack - it's an opportunity [...]

Garbage.

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The "Written by hand." in the footer hurts my brain. If it is written using real thoughts and ideas formed by themselves, they've fully imbued their brain with that AI stank I guess. It really does FEEL like unedited LLM output.

You can find a few smoking guns or em a few dashes, whatever. But every sentence is emanating the stank.

you don't need to be an LLM to have LinkedIn brain, but it helps

LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked.

Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless LinkedIn-brained post, I can lie to myself and say it was made by a discount LLM.

They prompted the model by hand.

That's the sign of a good product: when you have to lie that you don't use it.

Haha... well it's now changed to:

"Written with AI. Curated by hand."

Yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20260709105821/https://thetrutha...

I’m not an AI skeptic by any means. But I can easily recognize GPT generated output. It’s so formulaic. Of course you’d expect it to be formulaic given what it’s doing under the hood. But it does take the sheen off how impressive the written output looks the first time you see it. And I wonder if it points in the direction of limits on what it can ultimately do.

> Garbage

It's not just garbage — it's AI slop garbage.

Exactly. You've hit the nail on the head.

And quite frankly, your AI slop garbage radar is not just an indicator of good taste — it's the essence of humanity that keeps you above it.

One caveat worth flagging: Your AI slop garbage radar won't work on food (no em-dashes, no "it's not X, it's Y" framing, just quiche). That's a real limitation, so calling it out matters. You weren't considering using it on food, but it's important to note that it won't work in order to burn more tokens. I mean provide you with a well rounded answer.

Want me to plan an app that detects food made from AI recipes?

Heh, this one brought a smile - well played.

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