AIBU to think some trending threads might be AI generated?

Oh I agree it's suspicious (and annoying) but I just don't know that it's necessarily AI.

The ones that are irritating me are the "I'm really young and it's clearly my first day on planet Earth and I didn't grow up with parents/grew up in care and WIBU to wear matching shoes/say hello to my MIL/cook and eat lunch at lunchtime/I did this obvious thing that you just don't do and anyone who has lived on this Earth for 5 minutes would know you don't do" and posters are either falling over themselves to placate the person or castigate them depending on the mood. They're just so tedious and I resent wasting time reading them.

I have seen lots of anti immigrant sentiment being seeded on this forum and others.

Reform have the biggest election war chest ever collected.£100m. They will totally be spending money on spreading content on sites like this.

MN has long been viewed as an important platform for politicians, and has always leaned left. Imagine what a coup it would be for reform to shift the dial on here. They will be spending money on this.

Interesting perspectives on here. I have never been one for troll hunting. I suspect some of the funniest threads on here over the years to be the work of trolls, but I have also been wrong RIP @catthiefkeith. I don't mind wasting time on someone with a good imagination and a distinctive writing style. Not something I think AI can replicate as yet.

It's very sad that we've come to a point whereby people who have competent language skills and/or take the time to check what they've written before posting are thus suspected of being 'too good to be human'. It doesn't say a lot about us as a species, does it?

Don't forget that not everybody posts using a phone - I read on my phone, but 95% or more of what I post is done on my laptop... and we now also have the edit function, for when you read back after posting and spot the typos that have crept in.

Some people don't have the gift of brevity - or maybe don't want to be later accused of drip-feeding! This may also include neurodiverse people, who might have a 'must include everything' writing style that's maybe less common in NT people - but neurodiverse people are obviously still 100% people.

I do agree with you, though, when hours or even days go by and the OP never returns. Sometimes it's because the thread didn't go the way they hoped, meaning that "everybody is wrong and stupid"; but I concede that it may well suggest AI.

I still don't actually get the point of AI starting threads on a forum for humans, though. Is it just for AI to post, and AI to read and respond, and then there's no point in any of us being here at all? What does that achieve? Can AI 'enjoy' using MN? Why does it even need advice on anything if it supposedly already knows it all anyway?!

What other indicators of regionality are you looking for?

3'words in shouty capitals, a fine contribution to the discussion indeed

Duh! I know regionally it's a possibility - but I'm referring to situations where there's no other indication of regionality.

Didn't he copy that from something much older?

I used several, can you not read??

Having a go at my gifs, GET OVER IT

😂. Don't take it so seriously - I was simply putting it forward as a possible indicator of Ai-generated text, in examples where it doesn't fit neatly with the rest of the text.

Stupid gifs everywhere, use your words

Like your username - Warren Zevon would be proud. 🐺

AI SLOP EVERYWHERE

You may indeed know a lot of stuff, but it does make you look a bit foolish if you then extrapolate that confidence to include other stuff about which you clearly aren't all that knowledgeable - and to actually make proclamations based on that assumption.

😂😂😂 I didn't phrase it accurately enough in my first comment, that's fair to say 😃 But without outing my identity, I really do know my stuff in this area, and have written/published about it extensively 🙂

I think Mumsnet try to be proactive and identify AI posts, but there's going to be ones that slip through the net.

A clue I always use is, is this too well written? Most people are posting in a gap in a busy day, or under emotional stress, and so you'd expect posts and responses to have some spelling or grammar errors, or that the OP might not be clear and clarification might be needed later. If the OP feels highly structured, with a beginning middle and end, that sets my alarm going too.

I might be one of those. I wasn't accurate enough. Anyway, I'm leaving this now - I've suddenly gotten busy with other stuff 😂

That might be the case in Makefield but if you think that will happen nationally, you are kidding yourself.

One thing I've noticed is threads that point towards a UK poster, writing about a UK situation, but throwing in the word 'gotten' as though that's typical of British English (it isn't).