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mcpar-land01/15/20265 repliesview on HN

Is this some kind of copypasted AI output? There are unformatted footnote numbers at the end of many sentences.


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NetOpWibby01/15/2026

I was thinking the same thing. No proofreading is a sure sign to me. I also feel like I've read parts of this before.

sltkr01/15/2026

Some of the images are AI generated (see the Gemini watermark in the bottom right), and the final paragraph also reads extremely AI-generated.

dvrp01/16/2026

Maybe, but I was trying to find the original source of this article and couldn’t, at least not cursorily.

eiiot01/18/2026

The table also seems like the kind of thing that Gemini seems to generate a lot. "Here's a table that communicates almost no information! One of the rows is constant for each item."

ramon15601/16/2026

I already stopped when I saw the AI-gen image