2024-12-23 through 2024-12-30, if the HTML metadata is to be believed. It's always a pain when article-oriented websites try to hide this sort of thing.

This reads like standard AI slop. A giveaway is structured Attempt/Methodology/Efficacy pattern repeated all the way through the article, while top level categories are overlapping. (ZeroGPT: "Your Text is Likely generated by AI/GPT".)

You just used some bullshit AI tool to call my work, that took me several weeks to research and write, "AI slop".

That's after getting a degree and spending over a decade in financial journalism.

You will read this but still insist you are smart.

People like you are the reason people are falling for "AI slop".

Thank you for the input. As the linked news and opinion blog's editor I saw a spike in traffic from this HN thread, and I'm happy to answer any question anyone here may have about it. I have added the date and author's name to this article and will make that the standard.