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> "xz: The Backdoor That Put One Maintainer in the Spotlight"

Do people who publish this stuff read this and think "this LLMism sounds good to me"?

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This is an editorial style that's been around a lot longer than I've been alive. Your causality may be a bit backwards.

Nope. It is a bizarre mix of multiple styles. The article is certainly AI written.

“One maintainer” makes no sense here, it is THE maintainer.

Use of colon there is also a blind mimicry, xz isn’t defined by the exploit that put “one maintainer” in spotlight.

It is total rubbish.

I can feel your hatred of LLMs and the article is clearly written by it. But don't let it blind you. "One" maintainer makes perfect sense here, "the" would sound odd. It's truly been used that way for a long time.

It absolutely makes no sense in that context because there is only xz maintainer that got famous; and it is the maintainer.

The editorial style has always existed. It seems it has seeped into tech blogs since LLMs.

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