This misleading, GPT generated article is on the first page of Google results for "ECMAScript 2023"

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Of the four features it claims are new in ES2023, the first two are false (but plausible, I suppose), the third is nonsensical (It's just destructuring), and the last feature was released in ES2017.

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To be fair, it's no worse than articles some people write on those nonsense websites.

Everyone freaking out that bad AI content is going to ruin the internet, when the internet was already ruined long ago by terrible human generated content.

The biggest problem is that now it will be mass generated with little effort. Time to abandon Google if most of the web becomes ChatGPT generated articles. Better to talk to ChatGPT directly.

Maybe a silly question: how do we know this was generated with GPT?

The current versions of ChatGPT are quite stable in their outputs. If I enter the title and subtitle of this article, it completes it with very similar results: