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tons of people these days reflexively respond to long comments saying they're AI

one could wonder, how many of these reflexive AI replyers are themselves AI

Long comments, well-informed comments, comments they don't agree with, comments praising something from a specific company or country, the list goes on. It's basically impossible to actively participate in online discussions these days without being accused of being a bot at least occasionally.

I miss the days when I was allegedly just a shill. Being a shill pays way better than being a bot, so I had something to aspire to.

Some people seem to need to demonstrate how inferior AI is, and how superior their ability to identify AI-generated content is, so strongly, that they see it everywhere and will accuse anything that isn’t low-effort, grammatically incorrect and more than a sentence or two long of being written by an AI.

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