Digging into this a bit more — the original blog post appears to have been taken down, but Wayback Machine saves. The original post does not have all the details that are in the ABC story. And yeah, it definitely reads like it was drafted by an LLM.
Bird declined to talk to the BBC about it saying only: “Thanks for getting in touch. I am unavailable to participate in an interview. Appreciate your interest the story.”
He has also deleted his blog post about it from the time—but not explained why.
Good catch! I wonder if it happened at all.
Digging into this a bit more — the original blog post appears to have been taken down, but Wayback Machine saves. The original post does not have all the details that are in the ABC story. And yeah, it definitely reads like it was drafted by an LLM.
The BBC tried following up but were rebuffed: