28 points | by Joseph_Hu 14 hours ago ago
10 comments
As always, correlation does not imply causation. Someone who is actively playing with the title of their chrome extension may also be playing with any of a dozen other knobs -- all you've observed is that the lights seem to be on over there.
I was expecting this to be a study of extensions being repurposed as malware or something, instead it's about... not much.
you didn't do jack. you posted an LLM response as a blog post
Article is AI slop, so I instantly stopped reading.
Best we can do is flag such articles, but HN seems to upvote them anyway so I seem to be in the minority.
I stopped as soon as the thumbnail, "baseline drift" was the giveaway.
As always, correlation does not imply causation. Someone who is actively playing with the title of their chrome extension may also be playing with any of a dozen other knobs -- all you've observed is that the lights seem to be on over there.
I was expecting this to be a study of extensions being repurposed as malware or something, instead it's about... not much.
you didn't do jack. you posted an LLM response as a blog post
Article is AI slop, so I instantly stopped reading.
Best we can do is flag such articles, but HN seems to upvote them anyway so I seem to be in the minority.
I stopped as soon as the thumbnail, "baseline drift" was the giveaway.