AIBU to think some trending threads might be AI generated?

No need for the “duh”.

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

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

But if Restore and Reform end up splitting the vote that might be a good thing with neither of them getting anywhere much.

Definitely. Usually verrry long OP with loads of detail in neat paragraphs - general give away is the OP never returning

Even if people are using AI to help write their own posts, you can spot it. You certainly can on FB. I'm sick to death of posts being written in that endless repetitive style. You feel like saying "OH hello ChatGPT". Why use 100 words when 2000 will do?

It's like people have lost trust in their own ability to write. It's making people so lazy and everything you read online has become incredibly generic. Even my business partner - clever, well educated to Masters level, though never particularly confident in composting communications - had fallen into the habit of running an email through chatgpt before he sends it. Until I pointed out that uses the equivalent of a bottle of water and for fuck's sake have some confidence in his own ability.

But it’s not unusual.

It's a 'possibility' that Scottish and Northern Irish people might be posting on a UK-based forum?

Not that other Brits don't use the word too; it was part of standard English long before the USA existed. Moreover, we do actually get genuine living, breathing American humans on MN too - and they're very welcome.

Op look at the site stuff thread on this. Mnhq respond to it, you’re not correct.

Can't believe I'm even typing this but as much as I completely believe Reform would be a disaster for the country and is sailing very close to the wind in terms of respect for democracy, I am utterly freaked out when I think of fucking Restore. That's like the depths of hell being unleashed on us - Third Reich and Gilead wrapped up in one fetid package.

There are lots of paid trolls on Christian nationalist think tanks' pay rolls. Those guys have an obcene amount of money and influence. The UK is a key part of their European strategy and so they are being absolutely relentless at the moment. All of that Christian kingdom stuff is imported ideology. FFS we kicked them out 400 years ago and here they try to come back like a bad smell.

Tell mnhq instead. They respond on this, there’s a site stuff thread now.

I think it happens a lot.
And then when a poster holds them to account on something that doesn't add up they use the "I'm ND so..." excuse to explain it away.

Absolutely. And I know at least one of the ones you're talking about.

Ideally, they'd just be bots. Because if someone is actually guiding AI to create and keep these threads going, it's very sad that they have so little else in their life that they do this. Pathetic really.

My life gets pretty boring at times but I'd think I'd hit rock bottom if I was inventing fake threads on social media and not even writing them myself (that at least would be creative writing!).

I assume MNs do it to increase engagement

What is the point of groups doing this?

Can you give some examples of threads where you think this may be the case?

I know that's a possibility, but I'm pointing towards unexpected and unusual usage.

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.

Humans using AI to write a little tale on here is what I thought they were

I wouldn't have a clue what was AI generated and what wasn't 🤔

It is actually. It’s regional.

If it is referring to humans using AI to write posts my comment would be, have you just found the Internet?

Id be very surprised if anyone needed to ask if they were being unreasonable to think a thing that everyone knows is a thing

I'm interested to find out more about AI with no human intervention

Apparently this happens on reddit a lot - AI created posts to promote engagement. And it's used to farm the replies to teach AI how to write more naturally.
How to spot? I don't know but when the paragraphs are a bit too neat and even, I tend to start suspecting.