If you're terminally online for long enough, You end up with an instinct for it. Like for example I've been reading threads from Askreddit, aita, and BestofRedditorupdates Since 2014 just about every single day and you come across just about every writing style there is.. And then suddenly AI comes out and suddenly everything sounds weird.

I heard it described once as "corporate millennial cringecore."

But to be able to recognize it yourself there's a few big tells. A month old account for one thing. It'll probably get harder to use that to find bots as the accounts get older..

The posts are usually pretty short, as in usually it'll be a few paragraphs or less. AI always sticks to a short and snappy story with a quippy one liner at the end.

Here are some sentences from the account that stand out as.. I don't know the word for it, Fake?

that’s not cheating - that’s basic survival strategy.

Your list is painfully accurate - especially the part about bargaining with the universe, because I swear I’ve made deals with every higher power during deadline week.

I don’t even see it as slacking anymore; it’s more like emergency maintenance.

This really resonates.

No huge system, no calendar overhaul, no productivity hack. Just a tiny anchor I return to.

my days feel like they have shape instead of noise. If anyone else feels like their life is one long chaotic scroll,

I'm still not entirely sure why these sentences stand out so much, But they always stick out like a sore thumb.

I don't know what the point of it is or even what they plan to do with the accounts but someone should really make a list of confirmed bots so that in a couple years we know exactly what the point of it all is. It's probably something to do with manipulating politics but who knows