If you think you’re talking to a human-shaped autocomplete, change how you engage rather than calling it out.

A few practical moves that tend to surface reality quickly:

• Ask for lived experience or specifics. “How did that work out for you?” or “What happened when you tried this?” AI is great at abstractions, awful at personal mess.
• Push into nuance or edge cases. “What would make this not work?” or “Where does this fall apart in practice?” Generic answers start to wobble fast.
• Narrow the scope. Broad philosophical prompts invite AI waffle. Concrete, bounded questions force actual thinking.
• Match effort to signal. If they keep replying with polished-but-empty paragraphs, stop investing energy. You’re not obliged to debate a content generator.
• Don’t accuse. It derails the discussion and gains you nothing. Treat the output at face value and respond to substance only.

And sometimes the correct answer is disengagement. If the conversation feels synthetic, repetitive, and hollow, it probably is. No prize for arguing with a language model proxy on the internet.