FWIW, the actual apology is well written.

decimalenough · 2026-01-04T21:47:20 1767563240

Although little note at the very end explains why:

> This note is in response to emails from Eli Grey to Chrome leadership from October, 2023

In other words, he wrote this because he was forced to.

tuananh · 2026-01-05T03:34:55 1767584095

that's going a bit far, no?

wallawe · 2026-01-05T03:49:34 1767584974

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Sephr · 2026-01-06T05:08:40 1767676120

That is not what I posted. My original post, accessible via the GitHub comment version history is

"@addyosmani No problem; just remember that modifying someone else's code does not grant you any copyright to that code. I don't agree with your opinion that inserting existing code into a template (the API) for a framework (Modernizr) warrants a notice of credit, even with a few changes to the code being inserted."

wallawe · 2026-01-07T02:04:35 1767751475

i misread it - apologies - happy to delete. there's not currently a button for it so i will reach out to the hn team.

ohso4 · 2026-01-05T00:23:37 1767572617

If you run it through originality.ai, you'll see that bits of it are his writing, some is mixed and some is just ai. This blog post everyone is discussing is also written with ai.

nubg · 2026-01-05T00:48:53 1767574133

And who or what is "originality.ai" supposed to be that makes it an authority on AI provenance (an unsolvable problem)?

Sephr · 2026-01-06T06:14:52 1767680092

Addy told me that he didn't use AI to write his apology. I can see why people might suspect otherwise though.

m0zzie · 2026-01-05T02:40:26 1767580826

That site happily flags writing older than the modern AI era. It's a worthless grift, which has unfortunately suckered many.

fragmede · 2026-01-05T02:20:20 1767579620

lol you believe that site for more than a second?