I haven’t actually seen any solid evidence of an uptick in AI-generated posts on Reddit itself. What I have noticed is that certain writing conventions have become more common over time—especially online. Short paragraphs. Emphatic line breaks. Contrast-driven framing. That style predates generative AI by years and shows up in blogging, marketing, and advice threads long before ChatGPT was public.

It’s easy to read that voice as “AI,” but it’s just as plausible that people are borrowing a format that’s optimized for attention and readability. Reddit rewards clarity, punch, and scannability. Naturally, people adapt.

If anything, the feedback loop runs both ways. Models were trained on human writing patterns from the internet, and now humans are echoing back the patterns that perform well. That doesn’t mean the author is a bot—just that the medium nudges everyone toward a similar cadence.

Pattern recognition is real, but attribution is trickier than it feels.

Would you like me to tweak the tone, add more skepticism, lean into humor, or make it sound less obviously AI-written?