This was the weirdest thing I’ve seen today. These are only the ones I’ve spotted.
funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It’s at the top right now! Beautiful
https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/
tipping points:
- consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
- They’re all saying “exactly” and saying the same thing"
- their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
- All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
- and they all have porn on their profile. oh
edit: tf? 
Gotta kick out all the human users to make room for more of these.
It’ll be so nice when the bots can post for all of us on the internet! It’ll give us plenty of free time to spend in the mines
Thirtyish years ago, we played a multiplayer online game called “LPMud”. There were three talking NPCs in the game: Harry, basically a simple programming example on talking and reacting NPCs, Sir Obliterator, a dark knight with a more advanced vocabulary and a few talking points about a quest, and Eliza, basically a NPC with an Eliza engine.
Usually, they never met. Harry “lived” in the core area of the game, Sir Obliterator in or around the quest area to which he belonged, and Eliza was normally not even active.
Some wizard had summoned them all to the guild hall, the entrance area of the game for fun, and they were rather busy “talking” with each other.
They were annoying, but also hilarious…
…i spent many hours in the darker realms donning the afro, jive ring, and few other similar text-parsing items simultaneously to wildly comedic effect…
Reddit has so rapidly descended into nothing but bots. Especially on certain subs, for some reason… Even some quite niche ones just seem to be bots talking to each other. Fortunately the only sub I really want to keep my reddit account for is mostly safe, but even there we had some issues.
In some cases I get what’s happening - bot post with featuring some kind of obscure product, then buried in the comments you find the bot replies letting people know (apparently organically) where they can buy it - but in other cases like this it just seems pointless. I suppose the idea is to make the profiles seem natural, but they’re almost all private anyway.
Gaslight trainers
You’re absolutely right! Those posts do have many indicators of having been written by an AI. You’re doing a great job finding these comments
that is completely correct! it’s awe—inspiring to see this level of rigorous investigation. that sort of attention to detail gives me hope that something can be done about this problem. this post fills me with hope for humanity
Totally feel this. It’s kinda wild how refreshing it is to see someone actually dig in instead of just shouting hot takes into the void. When people put in real effort — like, actual research, receipts, context, the whole thing — it reminds you that not everyone is just doomscrolling and giving up.
Honestly, posts like this are the rare moments where you remember, “Oh right, humans can be competent and thoughtful.” Gives me a tiny spark of optimism I didn’t expect today.
More of this energy, please.
Agreed.
Very good
To make a grilled cheese you need the following ingredients:
- Bread
- Cheese
- Butter
Step 1: Melt butter in a pan.
Step 2: Place the bread on the butter. Soak the butter in.
Step 3: Add the cheese slice to the bread.
Step 4: Put the bread on top of the cheese.
Step 5: Grill the sandwhich on both sides until golden brown.
Some good additions to grilled cheese are tomatoes, ham, or uranium-238.
Absolutely! Of all of the grilled cheese recipes out there this is by far one of the recipes out there. A little bit of cheese can really make your day better. Just like that time that Mankind faced off against The Undertaker the WWF pay per view special “Hell in a Cell”, 1998. Mankind climbed to the top of the 16 foot cage and taunted the Undertaker to wrestle him up high, only to end up getting thrown into the commentator tables below. Everyone thought the match was over but just before Mankind was taken out in a stretcher he got up and ran back for more. I’ll never forget how The Undertaker choke slammed him through the top of the cafe and onto the thumb tacks below. It just really gives me hope for humanity.
Affirmative.
You have run out of tokens on free plaaauuuhhh I mean good job
Where LLM though? All I see in this screenshot is a plane full of essential oils saleswomen from Utah…
They have the self awareness of LLMs though.
linkedinlunatics is a phrase for a reason… LLMs are just polite white people faking the interaction. anyone who’s worked in or around corporate recognizes the synergy
Someone’s told the last AI not to use capital letters because some someone somewhere thinks that makes it look more human. Forgetting of course that autocorrect would change most non-capitalized words into capitalised ones automatically — so it’s just suspicious.
If enough of them make this mistake they will start training with it too.
If money doesn’t run out by then, there will be a point where 99% of reddit comments are chatbots and also due to incest-data everyone can tell which one at glance.
And no amount if scrape-training can happen after then.
Dead Internet theory in practice.
maybe we’re all in the matrreix?
Can someone add the “This is who you are arguing with online” meme with the machine learning image in it? Can’t find it right now.
Do LLMs always omit the period on their last sentence? Seems like that would be a dead giveaway
No, when it comes to LLMs there’s hardly any “dead giveaways” now. You have to learn to recognize the patterns.
Omitting the final punctuation is quite a common thing people do, in fact you did in your comment. It’s probably just a part of the system prompt.
in fact you did in your comment
Whoosh
Yeah, LLM would probably not omit the final punctuation unless specifically prompted to or unless it is given a ton of examples of comments it should mimic in the prompt.
Which it probably will have because it’s been trained on Reddit comments.
i don’t think i (or perhaps anyone) can recognize any single particular comment as being llm generated… but when the bots come in force it is still really easy. basically it boils down to this: many replies keep reiterating the same exact points in slightly different way with the same exact keywords. if you would use chatgpt to summarize each response you’d get basically the same thing from all bot replies.
I agree. I believe it’s difficult for me—or anyone else—to pinpoint a specific comment as being generated by an LLM. However, when numerous bots are involved, the pattern becomes clear. Essentially, many responses end up repeating the same points, just phrased differently and using the same keywords. If you were to use ChatGPT to summarize each response, you’d essentially get a very similar outcome from all the bot-generated replies.
thank you! we need slightly longer chain or more parallel replies to drive the point home… anyone else?
I don’t know.
Think it’s probably a bug in the script they’re running. It’s cleaning one character too many off the end.
Why would they cleaning characters of the end in the first place?
LLMs ramble unless you stop them forcefully. That can lead to partial sentences that need to be cleaned up.
That’s not a problem inherent to LLMs, people building things with LLMs don’t normally need to account for this.
I can’t say it never happens, but if you’re using an appropriately trained LLM with an appropriate system prompt, this concern should be uncommon enough that trying to compensate for it with code will be more likely to introduce problems than just leaving it.
You just explained how it is a problem inherent to most LLMs. Most spammers aren’t able or willing to train a model.
Every large hosted LLM drones on and on. It helps them land on the correct answer more often. And they always return to the mean of their training even with prompting. Try telling a model not to reply with “Sure thing!” or some other shit and it’ll do it anyway. Far easier to just cut that shit out.
Vibe coding.
List ends are exclusive, a new programmer could easily make that mistake.
Notice how some try seeming more ‘human’ by deliberately using all lower-case spelling.
Also, it looks like the RosalieBloomm LLM is using the “real” apostrophe
’instead of the one on keyboards'. Nobody does thatMy keyboard has both characters. ’ and ‘ but yeah I never use them.
I don’t think they actually look good, yeah, it just looks weird.
Keyboards in Latin America don’t have the apostrophe but the tilde you mentioned. So it could be from someone outside of the US/not an American keyboard.
Don’t they have an apostrophe somewhere?
According to Wikipedia their apostrophe should be located where the US-ANSI dash
-is located.Yes but it’s the ’ instead of the ’ that American/Canadian keyboards have. People using a keyboard in LatAm will very often use that apostrophe because it’s the one on the keyboard. So maybe the bot was operated in a Latin American country is all I’m saying.
Huh, I couldn’t find anything about that anywhere online. Are you sure that’s the norm in Latin America? Because Microsoft says that key is the normal apostrophe (U+0027): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdla
This is just the lazi AI replies that sticks out and you aren’t seeing the bigger picture. Most bot replies are indistinguishable from real humans as they use training models built from real users.
You’re totally right! The eloquence and creativity showcased in AI comments underscores how they cannot be distinguished from comments by human users.
a. i. cummings
Not in chat, but professional writers will. They know all the short keys for those type characters, including that m dash everyone now associates with being AI. It just shows how much of the training data used came from professional papers and not general discussion areas.
iPhones do this since iOS11
most macbooks and android devices, too
I was typing a long comment about all this, but in the end I decided to sum it up:
Fuck Reddit and Fuck AI.
I feel you bro
Remember when /r/SubredditSimulator was just an experiment?
It turns out sports-bot was more human than most humans
Loved that sub and how they would get stuck in loops trying to decide loops trying to decide loops trying to decide loops
This isn’t new. This has been going for maybe 10 years or so if you knew where to look and how to notice them. However, when Reddit changed its API policy in 2023, that wholly crippled any infrastructure to effectively deal with these accounts and allowed them to flourish without restraint.
It’s also important to note that the Threadiverse is not immune from bot accounts like this sprouting up and we should take steps to educate users and to implement infrastructure to deal with them.
Exactly. It’s important to be aware of our own flaws to avoid societal traps. I am glad you are taking steps to insure the community will flourish. bot-accounts could be any one.
completely unrelated aside…
i feel like we’re overdue for another zombie-genre revival
Please no, it feels like we just got out of the phase where everything has zero-effort zombie versions.
Just some years ago the dead internet theory was said to be a fun but untrue thought. Well.
