Except my 1-sentence comment was not an AI callout that said: "Hey this is AI slop". I validate the content of the article but express personal disappointment in the AI writing style.

I admit it is perhaps unkind of me to not provide the laundry list of AI-tells in their article, but I see their response to me as being a direct lie ("I haven't used AI to write this post, that's just my style") so what explanation do I owe them?

> Except my 1-sentence comment was not an AI callout that said: "Hey this is AI slop".

Not literally, but this was the thesis of your comment, regardless of your four words of validation.

> I admit it is perhaps unkind of me to not provide the laundry list of AI-tells in their article

Please don't do this. It doesn't matter.

> what explanation do I owe them?

What explanation do they owe you?