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by treszkai 25 days ago
Yes, it and the other three posts sound positively AI written. The first post on the blog is how OP uploaded a backdoored dataset to HuggingFace and left it there for 6 months – whether made up or not, it doesn't sound great.
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Why not?

This is arguing for style over substance. The goal is to explain how a bug impacts the company. Anything that achieves the goal is de facto good. Remember, the alternative is for the company not to be notified at all.

Style, and the effort an author put into their writing are both legitimate targets of rhetoric, analysis, and criticism.
They got $12k for their work. Their writeup was fine.
I clicked on the post and immediately bounced off because it was intense slop. Like a high schooler padding out their essay to hit a word count.

I don't care if they got paid for it. It's an interesting misconfiguration that you can describe in one sentence. I don't need to read the corresponding 500 word blog post.