This reads to as pure AI slop to me, and Pangram agrees (100% AI).

To use one of the idioms that give this impression, this is not just knee-jerk whining. It's material to what the article is about. If you're going to raise this topic, be a human and say something constructive. An AI generated ragebait whinge about ragebait is ragebait squared with a heaped serving of hypocrisy on top. This exemplifies everything it complains about.

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chrisyeh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I ran the same check, and was saddened, because I agree with his point of view, and generally enjoyed the article. But partway through, the "this sounds like AI" alarm went off in my head. Using AI to write an article criticizing the use of AI, and worse, not disclosing it, is distasteful. Especially since Stephen Diehl was writing long before ChatGPT emerged (with blog posts dating back to 2013). That someone could write but chooses not to somehow makes it worse.

	▲	chrisyeh 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yeah, I also ran a Pangram check of his Gamestop post from 2021 (similar topic and theme) and it came up as 100% human-written, so it is less likely that this is a case of Pangram penalizing a human being for having a specific writing style. Here is the URL: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/gamestop/

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A_D_E_P_T a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. "High confidence." I confirmed it myself:

> https://i.ibb.co/m5tPKPYS/Screenshot2026829-1.png

But forget Pangram. This passage, from the conclusion, is 100% rock-solid proof that Claude was a key contributor.

> "The question is not whether the internet contains useful things. It does. The question is whether human existence should be organised around alien and inhuman objective functions no human chose and nobody can inspect or understand."

Also, I think that "grift" (repeated throughout the article) is very poorly defined. I also think that most cryptocurrencies are, in the general case, a bad example of a "grift."

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chrisjj a day ago | parent [-]

Grift poorly defined? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grift

	▲	A_D_E_P_T a day ago \| parent [-]
		But this guy's talking about drop-shippers, life coaches, cryptocurrency, online "influencing" in general, and other things. Very few of those fit your own definition, as there's nothing illicit involved. In some cases, e.g. if you compare cryptocurrency to drop-shipping, there's not even much common ground, except "markets things through social media."