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Dangerous dependencies in third-party software – the underestimated risk

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Re: Dangerous dependencies in third-party software – the underestimated risk

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Does anyone else find this article's writing style to have some hints of AI?

Well, the image at the top absolutely is, and the article is written in that AI-favourite list with title headers format. It's also far too wordy. Also the "Alternatives and Tools for Dependency Control" straight up broke and the newlines are literal \n's so whoever posted it didn't proof read it but still took the time to bold the many headers.

I didn't make it that far into the article before giving up, due to the immense verboseness, but the \n's are a definite giveaway; and right before the first one is also a common "AI-catchphrase": "Let's explore some of these options in greater detail."

Re: Dangerous dependencies in third-party software – the underestimated risk

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Does anyone else find this article's writing style to have some hints of AI?

>Does anyone else find this article's writing style to have some hints of AI? "I think this is AI" is the least interesting, lowest-signal comment one can make here on HN, beating out perennial contenders "I hate this scroll bar", "this site hijacks my back button", and "why does this site require JavaScript?" If you can actually make an AI detector that works, do that and print money for yourself. Otherwise accept t…

No. Scrollbars are besides the content, AI-generated content is the content. An article absolutely deserves to be called out if the author has the gall to AI-generate it and then share it on HN (or elsewhere).
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