You're absolutely right! Those posts do have many indicators of having been written by an AI. You're doing a great job finding these comments

All of social media is dying before our eyes. every platform is basically fully botted or actively dying, even lemmy seems to have fallen off quite a bit

Sometimes I end up mindlessly scrolling yt shorts (not logged in). From time to time I get to a short that is clearly generated. Like the weird ones, often with animals, with drops of water appearing out of nowhere on the fur or front paws somehow transforming into hind ones, etc. And there, in the comments, very often are whole chains of comments that seem to completely be missing the fact that it's generated. Saying things "how wise it is to do that", "how cute", etc. It could be older generations not noticing the details (I see how my parents not notice those things) but I think most of those are probably bots. LLMs exchanging their "awww"s under generated videos. "Dead internet theory"

Gotta kick out all the human users to make room for more of these.

I was typing a long comment about all this, but in the end I decided to sum it up:

Fuck Reddit and Fuck AI.

Someone's told the last AI not to use capital letters because some someone somewhere thinks that makes it look more human. Forgetting of course that autocorrect would change most non-capitalized words into capitalised ones automatically — so it's just suspicious.

All three are 22-day-old accounts, too.

1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns

It's a certain "tone" to their written text. It's difficult to identify from small blurbs like the ones you got there, but once you've seen enough LLM output, even if someone tells them to write in a specific "style" they'll still have a certain uncanny type of expression that is almost, but never actually, how humans write.

Exactly, I agree.

Well at least I don't have porn in my profile but I realize I do sound like an LLM at times in my comments... Though I guess that's to be expected depending on the material they train on.

Just some years ago the dead internet theory was said to be a fun but untrue thought. Well.

Starting with agreement is a polite thing to do, but yes the structure of the comments feels uncanny. The words "turn regret into compassion" makes me cringe so hard and tips me off that a bot wrote this.

Reddit has so rapidly descended into nothing but bots. Especially on certain subs, for some reason... Even some quite niche ones just seem to be bots talking to each other. Fortunately the only sub I really want to keep my reddit account for is mostly safe, but even there we had some issues.

In some cases I get what's happening - bot post with featuring some kind of obscure product, then buried in the comments you find the bot replies letting people know (apparently organically) where they can buy it - but in other cases like this it just seems pointless. I suppose the idea is to make the profiles seem natural, but they're almost all private anyway.

Gaslight trainers

Thirtyish years ago, we played a multiplayer online game called "LPMud". There were three talking NPCs in the game: Harry, basically a simple programming example on talking and reacting NPCs, Sir Obliterator, a dark knight with a more advanced vocabulary and a few talking points about a quest, and Eliza, basically a NPC with an Eliza engine.

Usually, they never met. Harry "lived" in the core area of the game, Sir Obliterator in or around the quest area to which he belonged, and Eliza was normally not even active.

Some wizard had summoned them all to the guild hall, the entrance area of the game for fun, and they were rather busy "talking" with each other.

They were annoying, but also hilarious...

Dead Internet theory in practice.

Where LLM though? All I see in this screenshot is a plane full of essential oils saleswomen from Utah..

I think the two words and a number are what Reddit will come up with if you let them pick a name

Do LLMs always omit the period on their last sentence? Seems like that would be a dead giveaway