It's also clearly AI generated writing. That doesn't help its credibility or interest. I'm extremely suspicious of people who use AI to write an ostensibly personal blog, for all the usual obvious reasons.
It's also clearly AI generated writing. That doesn't help its credibility or interest. I'm extremely suspicious of people who use AI to write an ostensibly personal blog, for all the usual obvious reasons.
What are you basing that on? I'm usually pretty good at sniffing out AI writing, and it smells human to me.
The line "This is the part that really matters." and the line "This is the circular citation pattern, and it’s one of the most under discussed attacks on the “retrieval augmented generation” trust model. " both raised flags. AI absolutely loves writing about the One Weird Trick that dentists don't want you to know. They love talking about "what really matters" or saying something is "the most under discussed" thing.
Then we get to the section "Why This Is A Bigger Deal Than It Looks". The title of this section again raises similar flags to before. But the bulleted list of:
1. The retrieval layer (immediately) 2. The model training corpus layer (months to years) 3. The agent layer (where the money is)
Absolutely reeks of AI. This list with this sequence of parentheticals is exactly how LLMs write, both structurally and the specific phrasing. This was the point where I felt confident enough to publicly accuse the post of AI writing.
I could go on with the prose in this section... How about "The attack surface is not hypothetical, it’s the default case."? Or "The cleanup problem for corpus poisoning is genuinely unsolved as of 2026."? (LLMs wildly overuse "genuine(ly)" and "real")
I had the impression it was AI writing too because of the second half of the article. The first part looks genuine, the part since "trust laundering" smells fake: the scary single sentence followed by a whole paragraph of single clause sentences hints at AI.
Perhaps we've all just become paranoid, but even if it's not LLMs writing this, it now puts me off. And the AI image at the top of the page does not help with the feeling.
Agreed. Nothing about this post really stood out as AI. It didn't raise a single flag for me.
I think calling something AI generated is just a lazy way of dismissing stuff nowadays.
This paragraph under ‘Trust Laundering’ is when it hit my AI writing trigger threshold:
> This is the circular citation pattern, and it’s one of the most under discussed attacks on the “retrieval augmented generation” trust model. It doesn’t require compromising Wikipedia’s infrastructure with l33t hacker skills. It doesn’t require social engineering an editor. You just simply write the source yourself, cite yourself on Wikipedia, and let the trust flow downstream. Easy peasy!
“It doesn’t X. It doesn’t Y. You just Z. Conclusion”
Once I saw that some other elements stood out too.
There’s a set of bullet points under ‘Thae Approach’ where each bullet starts with a bolded phrase: “one domain”, “one press release”, “one Wikipedia edit”, followed by a bolded sentence “The whole thing took maybe about twenty minutes”.
The emphasis here on irrelevant quantifiable optimizations - who cares that it only needs one of each of three things and it took under twenty minutes? - with unnecessary faux-profundity is a strong AI tell.
Add to that that the writer talks in the article about using AI generation to produce the content for the poisoning site, the suggestion that he used it to write up a blog post about this is hardly an implausible suggestion.
If this truly set off zero flags for you then you're probably just not very attuned to LLM writing style. I've noticed that most people are not.
I posted a bunch of specifics in a reply to the GP since I was quite annoyed with being accused of "a lazy way of dismissing stuff". It's nothing of the sort. I am a very good reader and I have read a lot of LLM writing and a lot of human writing.
Why is agents (where the money is)? Fake profundity is abound in the post
The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.