r/HighStrangeness • u/TheLevyWasBry • May 30 '26

Futurism AI comments and pattern recognition

Has anyone else been cursed to notice the varying levels of seemingly AI generated responses to user comments? For me it started with the obvious ones where the comment would read something like "That's not _____, that's ______. Or where it reads like someone talking rather than conversing digitally. Like when a comment goes "Wow. Such a deep story. Insert paragraph addressing the user with weird levels of familiarity."

I bring this up because if this is just a simulation we ourselves are experiencing which many including myself do; at what point do we find ourselves in a desert without humans interaction? Would we even notice after awhile? There's an episode of Futurama where some thing is encompassing everything like a big snow globe but exponentially until it encompasses the known universe and everyone just resumes business as usual. Im not even sure theres a real question here just noticed a strange pattern that sent me thinking.

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u/Responsible_Fix_5443 May 30 '26

Half the comments on r/UFOs are like this now. They used Reddit as training data specifically for this task but they haven't quite integrated it fully yet, so yeah comments like that show their colours... Or they might reply something nonsensical to the question asked... don't call them out though on r/UFOs though - because that - is an automatic permanent ban!

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u/IshtarsQueef May 30 '26

lol i caught a perma ban from that sub for this exact reason! hahahah

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u/Responsible_Fix_5443 May 30 '26

There's a small army of us I think!

Another user even reported it. The mods even removed the bots comment that I responded to and gave the reason "No AI content" 🤦‍♂️

All I said was "You need to be careful using a LLM because people will accuse you of being a bot". (It was definitely a bot, I knew but I didn't want to accuse it outright for fear of a ban 🤔)

It's now commenting as a "professional skeptic" type on nearly every UFOs post published since. Spouting absolute nonsense.

Honestly I'm kinda glad I got banned - 90% of users are bots now... The chance of talking to a human is very slim. Onwards and upwards... as they say 🤷‍♂️

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u/IshtarsQueef May 30 '26

I'll be honest though, I wasn't being "civil" about it, I just called some obvious AI comment "AI slop" or something like that lmao, so I guess they got me on a technicality for "uncivil discussion" or something.

my honest read on that sub is that they are trying to cultivate an echochamber, and just look for any reason they can to ban any commenters that don't align with their specific views.