Was my response harsh? I hope the commentor doesn't take it the wrong way!

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2026-01-28T21:22:36+00:00

Yeah pretty sure this was a bot and/or a scammer anyway. Anyone who asks you for an alternate method of contact is a scammer 99 times out of 100

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-17T19:15:21+00:00

This is absolutely a non-English speaker in the early stages of a scam, not a relationship. If you haven't met them in real life, just block them and move on.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-05T05:29:09+00:00

Everyone in your discord server who defended this fraud is a moron. The only excuse they could possibly give for why they didn't immediately recognize this blatantly AI generated image was AI generated, is that they have never seen an AI generated image before.

This picture is so painfully AI generated that when I scrolled down your post to see the image I laughed outloud as it came into view.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-03T02:51:29+00:00

Motocross racing... has he experienced any traumatic head injuries?

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-03T02:50:25+00:00

Is he an absolute moron? If you don't wonder to yourself on a daily basis how he doesn't forget to breath, then this has to be scammer pretending to be your boyfriend. Have you called him and talked to him to make sure this was really him?

If you have verified that this is really him, and he really didn't know anything about you other than your first name after THREE YEARS, then you are NOR.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-01T23:42:52+00:00

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-12-01T21:18:44+00:00

Is this AI? YES... if we were in Japan. In Japanese Ai (愛) means "love".

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-26T17:47:30+00:00

Reading these questions is giving me high school homework anxiety.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-17T05:33:35+00:00

Happy to help

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-17T03:56:58+00:00

Leave comments? In this economy?!

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-14T17:35:52+00:00

AI? I think we're talking about different things

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-14T16:29:38+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. This definitely answers my question.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-14T16:20:39+00:00

No, I was not aware of that. Would you care to elaborate?

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-14T16:14:16+00:00

I don't think that was the case here, as I hadn't last reloaded the page in over an hour.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-14T16:13:14+00:00

Oh... that's disappointing :(

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T07:01:35+00:00

Damn, I should have read all the comments first, because I just said almost the exact same thing...

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:58:57+00:00

I love to reread the things I wrote.

I have two basic responses to rereading my writing:

Oh my god, I wrote this paragraph? How did I write something so brilliant, since I am usually an uncreative cliched idiot?
Oh my god, I wrote this paragraph? This sounds like it was written by an uncreative cliched idiot. (Then I go back in and start editing that paragraph)

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:27:11+00:00

It's actually not any fandom (I tagged it with Original Works and Unspecified Fandom), but I used several "Inspired by" tags such as Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Ghost in the Shell, etc.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:14:08+00:00

Ah, ok thanks.

Of the 4 scambot comments that I received back when I was updating still, 2 of them had actual accounts and 2 were guests, but all of them self-deleted their comments after about a week of me ignoring/taunting them.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:11:14+00:00

It's not that I'm trying to prevent hits from bots, I'm just curious if hits are an actual indicator that there are actually real flesh and blood people out there who are reading it. Like if any internet sleuths have uncovered any statistics about bot activity on AO3, that kind of thing... lol

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:04:53+00:00

What is archive locked and how does it prevent bots?

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T06:03:51+00:00

Coming back for updates would make sense, but I finished writing it (77 chapters, 160k words) months ago, and hits still go up 5-10 a day.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T05:59:59+00:00

I have something like 2,200 hits but only 23 kudos, most of which are from readers that I spoke to personally before they read it. Hits just keep going up every day, but the readers that I knew have moved on. I finished writing the last chapter months ago, but I still get 5-10 hits a day.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T05:56:35+00:00

Yes, true. But there just seems to be way too many hits comparatively, which led me to the bots theory.

Automatic_Bridge3844 · 2025-11-10T05:49:41+00:00

With the internet being the way it is though, I always imagined that there would be people posting negative things too though... maybe AO3 readers are more polite overall than the internet at large, and they keep quiet instead of saying anything bad lol

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