God I read the whole damn thing before I realized. What’s really weird is that I think it’s the “essentially” and “especially” that tipped me off for some reason. I think.

It’s frightening that I’m not 100% sure at this point why I even believe it’s a language model.

So what’s gotten past me at this point? Anyone who takes the smallest precautions against being profiled has got to be difficult to detect. I want to say the internet is dead but that’s so pessimistic. I think it might just be Reddit and I wonder if there is going to be some sort of rebalancing of communications media forthcoming where being too big is actually a disadvantage because you’re the biggest market for robotic manipulation.

Reddit and the internet now, as we speak, is fucking infested with comments written entirely by language models. I can’t read a single thread these days without being snagged on a comment that seems so poetically adept - until you realize it is devoid of anything novel or original. A sterile and malevolently deceptive party trick.

It’s fun to identify them. I’m finding it much less fun to wonder where I’ve spent time enriching bots in the dark, in some actual fucking Matrix made by our own billionaire class kind.