Stefano, the Human LLM of the 2000s

"This is slop! Prove it is not!". The latest comment on the latest blog post published on IT Notes. And, often, on MyNotes too. In other words, there is something in what I write that seems to be a distinctive trait of LLMs. It's becoming quite common, lately, every time I publish something. Sometimes, unfortunately, in an aggressive way too, especially in private. The trial is already over, they are sure. And you have to come clean. It's LLM. There can be no doubt. The first few times, it hurt. Now I smile. I smiled this time too. And it occurred to me that there has probably been stuff of mine online for almost 30 years. I did a quick search and... yes, I found traces of my posts on public mailing lists (still indexed) as far back as 1997. I was talking about mobile phones and Linux, and my writing style was similar to the one I have today. But they are fragments, disconnected sentences, often replies to threads. So I decided to dig further, trying to use publicly accessible…