slop
No, it’s not I believe.
The person also asked at Reddit, StackOverflow, and respond in comments. It seems like they tried to actually investigate it.
They even suggested that the investigation is still ongoing.It’s easy to call something “slop” nowadays, but those people who do so without a tiny bit of time invested for validation of their prejudice are no better than just haters who could not care less about someone’s effort in these indeed already challenging times…
We should still believe in people.
Yes, real people use LLMs to write blog posts. This post is slop, even if there is a real person who did some real things that inspired the text. I’ve seen enough slop at this point that the obvious tells in this article are just screaming out that they were written by an LLM.
The author (I hope), apparently, responded:
- https://medium.com/@potatocouch729/x-20024311359dOkay.
I get the skepticism. But in this case the content is real, the delivery was AI-assisted. Happy to answer specific technical questions if that helps establish it.
The underlying investigation is genuine. Here’s the trail if you want to verify:
Reddit (r/AskNetsec) - the specific forensic questions I’m trying to answer, macOS + Copilot agent angle
Security.StackExchange - detailed technical post on the git identity spoofing and infection timeline
GitHub repo - IOCs and detection scripts, actively updated
Trend Micro report - the published research this maps to
I’ve also reached out to Lucas Silva at Trend Micro directly with my specific IOCs.
