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Pangram said the op post is 100% AI generated.

It does seem to have ai pacing and ends with a question.

> The part that actually hurts is who is left.

That line actually made me suspicious. Op doesn't respond, also has a hidden profile.

This stuff is all over reddit now.

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> and ends with a question.

It's a reddit post - it ending by asking if others have had a shared experience hardly seems out of the ordinary.


It could have started with the question. The question could have been in the middle. It could have ended with a sentence after the question. But it's one aspect of the whole post that shows it's some weird engagement bot post.

This thread is discussing something that's not real. People are forming opinions and discussing it. Unless everyone's a bot?


I really don't get that from reading it several times over now. Maybe the paragraph starting with "The part that actually hurts is who is left...", but even that's a stretch for me.

> The question could have been in the middle

Tbh I would have found this much weirder.


Maybe not literally middle

> Not sure what I want from posting this.

> Is anyone else at the point where the mandate is being walked back, and how did you get the understanding back?

These two sentences could have been reversed and it would have been fine.

The post could have ended without the question and would have been fine.

I'm pretty sure I'm right that this is a fake post. Are you disagreeing that this is fake or ai written? Or with how I came to that conclusion? It's not the only tell, but one of a few.


> I'm pretty sure I'm right that this is a fake post. Are you disagreeing that this is fake or ai written? Or with how I came to that conclusion? It's not the only tell, but one of a few.

You're potentially moving the goalposts now - your initial claim is that the post is AI generated, now you're also asking if it's fake.

It may be fake (I wouldn't know how to tell if so or not). What I'm voicing skepticism over is whether or not it is AI generated.


I guess I consider ai generated posts on a message board as a subset of fake posts. And calling something fake can cover a spectrum of different types of posts.

I'd agree that AI-generated is a subset of fake.

I read through more of the comments on the post and here, have only found one other instance claiming fakeness (marketing for Code Rabbit). So for now it remains inconclusive to me how authentic (or human written) it is.


The dead internet theory was a joke until it wasnt. I find it genuinely unsettling.

>also has a hidden profile

Everyone should have a hidden profile. I mean... you went snooping didn't you? People always try to randomly dredge shit up. It's creepy AF.


> Pangram said

I wish people stopped posting what Pangram said. Pangram set an impossible task before them — either they're grifters or naive. They use a magic box to determine whether someone else used a magic box, giving you a bullshit result.


You can take a bunch of clues and decide if its a post worth engaging with. It did say 100%, and there's other clues that make it seem like bot spam.

What stops someone from writing a prompt that includes: "run your response through Pangram and keep adjusting until it thinks it was written by a human"

Time? Money? The tool is still good enough if it can detect the 99% of people who won't do that.

It's not surprising someone like that has stopped using their brain for writing English as well.

You think there's a real person behind this still? That seems like really weird behavior.

It's def written by AI but that doesn't mean that he's a bot. Just a coward. LOL!



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