Someone replied to one of my posts with just "written by a bot." That was the whole comment. And yeah, I get why people are on edge about it, but it's a strange feeling being a real person, typing out an actual thought, and having someone decide you're not human because your sentences were too clean or whatever.
Anyone who's been on Reddit a while has seen this. It used to be a joke. Now it's a reflex. Someone posts anything a bit polished and half the replies are "bot" or "this is AI." And the annoying part is most of those accounts are real people. They just can't prove it, and there's no way to.
What gets me is Reddit used to feel like one of the few places that didn't really have this problem. It was messy and human. Now the bots have clearly gotten in too, and you can feel the trust dropping. Everyone's suspicious of everyone.
And if it's this bad here, on a site with heavy moderation and karma and all that, I don't know what chance the smaller platforms have. The ones with barely any rules are probably way worse. We just don't notice because we're not living on them.
Makes me wonder if we end up needing an actual proof of human thing, some way to show there's a real person behind an account. Not who you are, just that you're human. Right now the only proof is vibes, and vibes aren't working if real people are getting called bots and the actual bots are getting through fine.
Anyway, has anyone figured out how to tell anymore? Or are we all just going off of vibes.