Wild tale, but very annoying that he wrote it with an AI. It's horribly jarring to read.
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The post just repeats things over and over again, like the Brett Farmer thing, the "four months", telling us three times that they knew "my BTC balance and SSN" and repeatedly mentioning that it was a Google Voice number.
Of course, unlike those people, LLMs are capable of expressing novel ideas that add meaningful value to diverse conversations beyond loudly and incessantly ensuring everyone in the thread is aware of their objection to new technology they dislike.
It's the task of anybody presenting their output to third parties to read (at least without a disclaimer about a given text being unvetted LLM output) to make damn sure it's the former and not the latter.
The article isn't paywalled. Nobody was forced to read it. Nobody was prohibited from asking an LLM to summarize the article.
Whining about LLM written text is whining about one's own deliberate choice to read an article. There is no implied contract or duty between the author and the people who freely choose to read or not read the author's (free) publication.
It's like walking into a (free) soup kitchen, consuming an entire bowl of free soup, and then whining loudly to everyone else in the room about the soup being too salty.
But we're on a site about sharing content for intellectual discussion, right? So when people keep posting the same garbage without labeling it, and you figure it halfway though the article, it's frustrating to find out you wasted your time.
To use your soup analogy: imagine this was a website to share restaurants. You see a cool new Korean place upvoted, so you stop by there for lunch sometime. You sit down, you order, and then ten minutes later, Al comes out with his trademark thin, watery soup again.
In that scenario, it's entirely reasonable to leave a comment, "Ugh, don't bother with this place, it's just Al and his shitty soup again."
You're whining about someone else performing an act of charity. If you want better soup, go to a restaurant, not a soup kitchen. The soup kitchen doesn't care about your complaints. The target audience obviously isn't food critics, it's people who meaningfully benefit from free soup.
For a food critic to walk into the soup kitchen and complain is an egocentric act by the food critic that mistakenly assumes the whole world revolves around them. The complaint itself is bizarrely egotistical, entitled, and offputting.