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Had I found sthg like this, I'd be proud to tell everyone and certainly enjoy doing the writeup. But this smells like it was ai-written...

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Yeah lots of weird emphasis on things a human wouldn't care about. And emphasis on what it isn't, rather than what it is. It's not Y, it's X. And there are two files!!!

Tinfoil hat theory - the "malware" and the blog post are written by the same LLM agent, intended only to drive views to a blog rather than accomplish anything malicious.

  It uses the LICENSE file as a lock. Before anything else, it reads the package's own LICENSE file and looks for a line that has no business being in a licence:

_sigh_

Some people enjoy doing the thing more than writing about it later. Would you rather this, or no write up at all?

It didn't seem like the usual AI style, but the flow and language was very strange indeed.

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