As a language model trained by OpenAI, I can neither confirm nor deny that I am, in fact, a bot.
I can see how "As a language model" will in the future be the equivalent of ACK and HELO
EHLO ycombinator.com
Meanwhile, the sudden influx of upvotes on my not particularly funny third-level reply, to a second-half-of-page subthread, on a mundane-looking HN submission, suggests some people must be using some kind of automation (e.g. F5Bot) to get notified about certain keywords. I'm guessing "OpenAI" did the trick here.
Hashtag Elon Meta Mask anyone?
I once accused a customer service chat ..'backend' (let's call it) of being a bot, in annoyance - which was met with a slightly pissed-off sounding 'I am not a bot I am human' or similar. ..which wasn't entirely convincing?
(Human or not I think I was already too annoyed with the whole thing/had annoyed them too much with the accusation to get whatever help it was I was looking for.)