I remember skimming this article. My initial feeling was that it was written by someone who wasn't a native English speaker. It seems like I'll have to pay more close attention to that feeling in the future.
I feel like so many of you are just utterly too kind. Without getting into the generated article, we have a lot of Orwellian new speak everywhere. Your standard corporate/management/hr speak is very pervasive. It sounds inhuman. This is a language many people adopt to fit in and make it in this world. It shadows itself in blogs they write, particularly signaling blogs.
The generated article follows in this vein. That’s what gpt will replicate, not the simplicity of a non native speaker (that would be easier to spot). It will follow the amorphous blob shape of saying something, but nothing, with the ominous undertone of ‘you know what’s going on, but you wouldn’t dare speak up’.
How many of you read something from a company and instantly think ‘this sounds like horseshit?’. How long did we let that go on? Forever right? We lost this fight before it even happened.
I think I agree with most of what you said, I just think you need to be careful. Don't confuse "horseshit" with bad English. The latter may contain something interesting, and the former never will.
You don't need to be a non-native speaker for that. If the other side is convinced you're a bot, it will be very difficult to make them believe otherwise. Which in a funny way has echoes of conspiracy theory believers who take every denial as a further proof of their existing belief.
The first I heard of this was 15 years ago[0]. The original article is no longer online, so the link takes to a PDF rendition. It cites the source.
I'd hate to end up in a situation where non-native speakers are accused of being bots...