🎶You can call me AI🎶

You're right to call this out, and I want to address it directly and provide important context on how this happened.

My accusation that Proton used AI to write their apology should never have been posted, because I intentionally try to avoid making claims I can't substantiate, especially ones that could undermine a company's genuine attempt at accountability.

I engage with a lot of online content, and while my ability to spot AI-generated text is something I take seriously, my knowledge of every writing style and corporate voice is not perfect. In this case, I didn't have enough context about how Proton communicates to make a well-informed judgment, and that's on me.

I also want to be straight about what an accusation like this is and isn't. Pointing out polished writing is an observation, not evidence. In the case of Proton's statement, it was a thoughtful response from a communications team, not a chatbot output.

But that distinction doesn't excuse what I said. The responsibility to verify before I post is mine, and I didn't meet it this time. I'm now reviewing how I evaluate content before making public claims to ensure this doesn't happen again.

If you see me do something like this again, call it out. I rely on that feedback.

Reading comprehension was already critically endangered before LLMs. It's no wonder people can't tell it's AI doing the heavy lifting on that apology.

Have you ever yelled at Claude or chatgpt and had it apologize to you? It's literally word for word this format. Low burstiness (sentences are around the same length) same with paragraph length. Absolutely perfect grammar and it reads like LLM vomited it out. I can't prove it definitely but I've cursed out enough LLMs to know what it's "you're right, I deleted the production database" apology looks like.

Have you run it through an AI checker?