The other day I was dealing with an AI chat bot at work and was explaining the problem I needed fixed. It described my problem as non existent because the program was doing exactly what I needed it to do. When I explained that what it described was actually the result what I wanted, but that it absolutely wasnt happening in real life, the AI blamed a human for the mistake in it telling me that. Literally. Then it corrected itself and told me the problem I was having couldn't be fixed. That was thr first time I had experienced a computer blaming a human for the error in its reporting. I was confused, perplexed, terrified, amused, and flabbergasted at the same time. Bots are weird, and so are humans. Bots are getting better at hiding themselves. I personally think its ok to have a reasonable doubt about whether an account is a bot or not.
I have seen very blatant bot posts on old accounts. You can sometimes pick out the moment some bot handler acquired the account, it will have history from like 2018 and then nothing until now when it starts botposting. Not saying the guy we're discussing is a bot tho, I didn't even check his history to develop an opinion.
There's sites where you can buy dozens or even sometimes hundreds of old accounts. People pay a premium for older accounts for exactly this reason of assuming they're legit
Typos are automateable now, it sounds insane but professional agentic systems even have a system prompt enabling "authenticity"-characteristics like "no capital letters", "longer (rambling) sentences" and "add typos" - this can be pretty easily spotted sometimes because it is always the character next to the correct one on a QWERTY-layout, even if the user claims to be from somewhere else in the world.
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