The text is very obviously heavily authored using AI. The more interesting question is: did a person even prompt an LLM to write on this subject? It seems likely that someone set up an agent using OpenClaw or something to just automatically write articles on popular topics in AI, and this is something that it came up with

Sorry to say, but it almost certainly is AI.

- 51 EM-dashes

- Section headings

- Excessive repetitions: "The [...] are real. The [...] are real. The [...] is real. All three things are true at once."

- Excessive use of "genuine", "genuinely", "honest", "real", "true"

- Excessive use of "gap": "near-term gap", "the Compute Gap", "the Narrative Gap", "critical gap"

- Corny and meaningless closing sentence: "Understanding both parts is the beginning of taking AI deployment decisions seriously."

My slop sensor went off a couple of paragraphs in. The high word count, mild brewing melodrama, circling back on variations of the same point over and over.

Still an interesting topic, but a good human author could have used 50-70% less words to make the same argument.

It most definitely is.