The ars technica twist is a brutal wakeup call that I can't actually tell what is ai slob garbage shit by reading it- and even if I can't tell, that doesn't mean it's fine because the crap these companies are shoveling is still wrong, just stylistically below my detectability.
Skimming through the archive of the Ars piece, it's indeed much better written than the "ai slob garbage shit" standard I'm used to. I think I could adapt to detect this sort of thing to a limited extent, but it's pretty scarily authentic-looking and would not ordinarily trip my "ai;dr" instinct.
There is a ton of money to be made right now being an AI slop regurgitation - if you can take AI slop and rewrite it in your own words quickly, you can make a nice buck because it doesn't immediately trip the rAIdar everyone's built up.
I think I need to log off.