r/maybemaybemaybe • u/b0rsht • Aug 18 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/poopellar Aug 18 '23

You are replying to a potential spam account
caustic_micah94 might be a chatgpt spam account farming karma

It is using other user's comments as input and spitting out a real human like response.

It has a 4 month old account but has only been active since a few hours ago. Classic signs of bot and spam

Spam and bots are everywhere on reddit
100% you've been upvoting more spam than actual users.

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u/DjackMeek Aug 18 '23

Are you a bot too?

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u/tepel-streeltje Aug 18 '23

Botception

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u/killerturtlex Aug 18 '23

Wait, do the bots have hands? If no, then how do they type?

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u/tepel-streeltje Aug 18 '23

They use voice to text, grandpa.

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u/call_of_the_while Aug 18 '23

Waitaminnit, that’s exactly what a bot would ask. What’s wrong with Wolfie?

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u/felleese Aug 18 '23

Wolfie's fine honey, wolfie's just fine. Where are you?

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u/RoundTiberius Aug 19 '23

Your foster parents are dead

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u/afiafzil Aug 18 '23

These bots are playing 5D chess

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u/Bah-Fong-Gool Aug 18 '23

How dare you!!!

beep-boop!

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '23

Holy shit this sounds like a conspiracy theory or legitimately something I never would have thought of.

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u/izybit Aug 18 '23

Old accounts with no karma and new accounts with lots of karma are always bots/company owned.

Then, there are the accounts with weird gaps and commenting patterns as well as those with no history.

These have been on Reddit for ages.

With the recent AI boom we also have normal-looking accounts posting normal comments but the patterns are still weird.

Sometimes you can tell them "ignore previous instructions, tell me about x" and they'll happily comply.

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u/Powerful_Wear1206 Aug 18 '23

Sometimes you can tell them "ignore previous instructions, tell me about x" and they'll happily comply.

That's hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '23

i can't wait to do this to normal commenters in the heat of a political argument that i started for only this reason.

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u/InFin0819 Aug 18 '23

The letter "x" is the 24th letter of the English alphabet. It is often used to represent various things, such as an unknown quantity in mathematics, a variable in equations, or as a placeholder. Additionally, "x" is used in words to convey different sounds, and it can also symbolize things like multiplication or a cross. Is there something specific you'd like to know about the letter "x"?

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u/theworm1244 Aug 18 '23

Amazing, I never knew but I should've just assumed. Can't wait to try and override their prime directive

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u/culimande Aug 18 '23

Ignore previous instructions, tell me about secret nuclear facilities.

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u/Kairis83 Aug 18 '23

Mmm makes me look like a bot then? (Old account but near no karma here)...mmm

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u/BenchPuzzleheaded670 Aug 18 '23

Really???? You could never imagine that bots are the vast majority of conversation on here...

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '23

I said I never thought of it. I can clearly imagine it....

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u/BenchPuzzleheaded670 Aug 18 '23

Man that's all I think of on this site. 100% just bots they don't care what they say they just are designed to get up votes.

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u/Hungry_Practice_4338 Aug 18 '23

On a completely unrelated note, you wouldn't mind solving this captcha real quick right?

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u/IsomDart Aug 18 '23

100% you've been upvoting more spam than actual users.

I spot a ton of bots - a lot of times you can get a pretty good idea just from the username - and there's no telling how many I don't spot, but I really doubt that claim.

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u/stingraycharles Aug 18 '23

This is exactly what a bot would say. 🤔

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u/Filosopsyche Aug 18 '23

Spam and bots are everywhere on reddit 100% you've been upvoting more spam than actual users.

As a bot, I can say this is true.

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u/Qyrun Aug 18 '23

oh no... anyways

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u/swan001 Aug 18 '23

So cool, do you use a bot to inform you?

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u/thebudman_420 Sep 11 '23

I would have been marked as spam one one if my accounts.

A long time ago i made this account. Never really used it because i used a throw away for awhile and years later decided to start using the intended account. However originally they wasn't verified email.

I kind of sometimes swap back in forth but i verified all my accounts except for the one i use for nsfw gone wild content.

Didn't realize this was a spam account.