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You're absolutely right! "Why Does This Matter?" was a dead giveaway that this article was not written by a human — it was written by a large language model.

But really: "Why does this matter?" When looking at an article like this, I rarely read the text. This is just fluff no matter if AI-generated or hand written. The info is "there's a LEGO set of that ASML machine" and the picture of that set. That's all I want to know before clicking the back button.

I’m flagging them, but it’s not enough. Front page is full of it these days. Sad times.

and then open up the comments section, just to see several identical "ai slop" comments and someone inevitably making a "you're absolutely right" joke.