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[NothingClever]

The affirming or confirmatory responses to things he knows relatively nothing about are what caught my attention.

 

[San Diego Climber]

Have I done it? Have I outed my first bot (outside of the obvious ones in comments on FB/IG?? There should be a forum decoration or label or whatever for such heroism.

Wording like “deep immersion” “experiential” and “deep practice”. Maybe once but peppered across multiple responses, sorry GPT model but that’s not scuba speak.

Also, it ghosted us. So sad.

 

[halocline]

I don't talk to bots, so bye-bye.

Well, that you know of, anyhow!

 

[Centrals]

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[Zane]

Use of "AI" was blatant from the very first post but I don't think it's done with malicious intent. Unless they're just trying to get access to the marketplace...

By the way — any em dashes — or emojis are a big giveaway the post was generated by a large language model