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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by SoftTalker on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:30PM (#50406789)
I'm having more trouble spotting AI text these days. It used to jump out at me. I'm not sure if it's that the LLMs are better or it's just becomming so normal to see that I stop recognizing it. This one didn't scream "slop" to me other than being quite long-winded for a blog post that I admittedly did not finish on first read. Going back and scrolling deeper into the post, it does become much sloppier.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by coldpie on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:47PM (#50406909)
> quite long-winded for a blog post

That's actually exactly what does it for me. After the intro, it gives you way too much specific detail. No one cares about the exact file path or whether that path is TCC Full Disk Access protect. What does that even mean? why is this important enough to be in the first sentence of the section? Who says stuff like "triple store?" It uses bizarre language with far too much detail, and your eyes start to glaze over. Slop.

A human would've said something like "It's a database in Library/IntelligencePlatform with three columns" and left all the rest of it out or maybe in some extreme details footnote.

Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by ricardobeat on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:56PM (#50409551)
The unnecessary detail dump is a dead giveaway. It starts in the very first section:

> a directory of SQLite databases (fifty-one databases)

> It is a triple store written in a vocabulary of 181 entity classes and 278 predicates

It continues describing the DB in excruciating detail - no human would have the attention span to write all of that down for a blog post.