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Re:The Day the Telnet Died by davebranton on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:29PM (#46968554)
Why would somebody read something that somebody couldn't be bothered to write? This article is AI slop.
Re:The Day the Telnet Died by accrual on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:40PM (#46969687)
What stood out as AI written? It felt like a well-written article by an SME to me.
Re:The Day the Telnet Died by tripdout on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:03PM (#46969842)
Not the original commenter, but I noticed it too. I guess it's hard since AI is trained on human content, so presumably humans write like this too, but a few that stood out to me:

> Five entire countries vanished from GreyNoise telnet data: Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Canada, Poland, and Egypt. Not reduced — zero.

> An attacker sends -f root as the username value, and login(1) obediently skips authentication, handing over a root shell. No credentials required. No user interaction.

> The GreyNoise Global Observation Grid recorded a sudden, sustained collapse in global telnet traffic — not a gradual decline, not scanner attrition, not a data pipeline problem, but a step function. One hour, ~74,000 sessions. The next, ~22,000.

> That kind of step function — propagating within a single hour window — reads as a configuration change on routing infrastructure, not behavioral drift in scanning populations.

(and I'm not just pointing these out because of the em dashes)

GPTZero (which is just another AI model that can have similar flaws and is definitely not infallible, but is at least another data point) rates my excerpts as 78% chance AI written, 22% chance of AI-human mix.

To me at least, the article still seems to be majority human-written, though.

Re:The Day the Telnet Died by throw10920 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:47PM (#46970968)
Also, one of the authors is "Orbie", which looks like an AI name, and if you go and read through some of the recent posts, all of the posts with that author feel very LLM-y and bland, and the posts without that author are much more normal.

GGP has a good eye.

Re:The Day the Telnet Died by nephihaha on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:53AM (#46972533)
Personally, I found the spoof song in the middle of very dry writing to be jarring. But I didn't think it sounded AI written.