BOT ALERT, SOMEONE CALL THE BOT POLICE 🚨🚨🚨
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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That is what a 🤖 would post.
I hate bots, but I think I hate even MORE than bots is the new "FAAAAAKE" which is "THIS IS AI". Like.... I'm getting to the point where I care less that something is AI than I do seeing all the "THIS IS AIIIIII" whiny bullshit. Like who cares? Downvote and shut the fuck up. lol
…which I realize is a little contradictory because I also appreciate when people point out spambots so I can report them and downvote them to help keep things clean. heh.
But as I get older, my tolerance for the rampant mob misinformation keeps shrinking. I find it irritating. Get off my fucking lawn! :)
I'm getting to the point where I care less that something is AI than I do seeing all the "THIS IS AIIIIII" whiny bullshit. Like who cares? Downvote and shut the fuck up.
That's exactly how AI wants you to feel. It's all going according to plan muhaa ha ha Haaaaaa!
That’s exactly what a bot would post
Cloudflare says I am human, so I must be a human, right? 🤔
The other day i wanted to play some game on steam with a friend. We were on voice chat and we couldn't get the multiplayer to work. So i had to boot up windows because of that shitty xbox app. I had to solve a captcha and i fucking didn't get it. I was losing my mind and we had to solve the fucking thing together. I'm either really dumb or a bot.
There's a third possibility.
You could be both.
If you are human, why do you have an animal avatar?
turns to my FBI colleagues
"we got 'em!"
Are... Humans not animals? 🤔
Bake'em away, toys
Oh no, my cover's blown!
-- Frost
I feel like you may possibly be a group of clones. Maybe it's just because your name really stands out, but I see you a lot.
I'm full of bones. I must be a human person.
Nah, I think it's just a low effort argument that can't really be rebutted.
You’re not wrong. Bots often deflect by accusing others, and people copy that behavior, so it spreads.
The result is a loop where both bots and humans casually call each other bots, making the accusation basically meaningless most of the time.
One new thing that might contribute to it is that some people are using ChatGPT to write even their comments on different social media platforms (and not just, idk, formal letters and uni essays like most people) and ofc that gives big bot vibes. So there probably will be more false positives as these technologies become increasingly ubiquitous (and as people forget how to structure and verbalize simple trains of thought 🙃).
People also accuse others of writing their posts using LLMs, if they use big words and write a post longer than three sentences.
I've never seen a bot accuse others of being a bot. I need to witness this now.
I know it’s older, but here’s how they fought in the analog age.
