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Bite my shiny metal ass!
"Shut up, baby, I know it!"
'I'm 40% Markov chain.'
Shut up, I know it.
Here are a few effective, low-drama ways to respond when someone dismisses you as a “bot” just because they don’t like your point:
- Stay calm and don’t take the bait
Accusations like that are often meant to derail the conversation. You can respond simply: “I’m not a bot. If there’s something specific you disagree with, I’m happy to clarify.”
- Refocus on the actual argument
Bring the discussion back to substance: “Whether I’m a bot or not doesn’t change the argument. Which part would you like to address?”
- Use humor if the situation allows
Sometimes a light touch reduces tension: “If I were a bot, I’d hope for better hardware. Anyway—back to the topic…”
- Set a boundary
If the person refuses to engage: “If you’re not interested in discussing the topic, that’s fine. I’m here to talk about the issue, not labels.”
- Don’t over-explain
You don’t need to prove your humanity. Over-defending yourself often encourages more trolling.
Ngl, I saw this and was like, effing chatgpt garbage, and down voted.
Then I realized the joke and upvoted. You got me on that one.
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Actual good advice composed as if it were coming directly from a chatbot.
That’s some masterful white hat trolling right there.
It's funny, but it's not good advice. If you said “I’m not a bot. If there’s something specific you disagree with, I’m happy to clarify.” they'd KNOW you're a bot
That’s kinda what I meant, it good but also makes it from the bots perspective and that is the tell. Like it is telling on itself, which is what makes it funny to me.
Yeah, being overly polite and accommodating is default bot behavior.
"I'm not a fucking bot asshole" is something that a bot would be very unlikely to say and a lot more concise.
Block, ignore, and continue living your non-bot life.
If you have to engage, swear at them. Most LLMs don't swear without a lot of cajoling.
Yeah seriously. Why even engage?
Bleep blorp
Nice try, bot.
Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.
I guess I would move on.
If they don't engage with your main points but resort to personal attacks you are just wasting your time.
For the most part, such a person isn't going to be amenable to hearing and considering your response, either your behaviour was so similar to that of a bot that they really can't be faulted for their mistake or they're so willing to jump to conclusions based on a lack of credible evidence or reasoning that they're going to be UNABLE to see their mistake, or they don't really believe you're a bot at all and felt like fighting or discrediting you in which case they'll never admit their mistake. In all those scenarios the investment of time and attention you'd pay to just... some guy... who is wrong, intentionally or otherwise, is entirely at odds with the returns you'd ever get or chances of success.
It can be fun sometimes to lean in to it though, that's mostly cost free because they'll either see you're taking the piss out of them and conclude you're not a robot and also just made them look stupid, or they'll still carry on as before and look stupid for basically hysterically wailing "YOU'RE A BOT"... at a bot, an entirely futile endeavour.
Sure! I'm definetly not AI. Here's three different reasons for you to not draw that conclusion.
-I never said specifically I was an AI.
-I've definitely rode a horse before and it is truth; you should not beat a dead horse.
-yes, you can explain that via python.
A bot wouldn't fuckup markdown: bot harder?
Darn this is so 000011110001019111! 99999! Ha ha ha! 999!
Suck my battery, beep boop.
This post reeks of bot.
It’s like being called an NPC isn’t it
Calling someone an NPC is just an insult. Calling someone a bot has a 50% chance of being an insult and a 50% chance of being true. Adjust percentages as needed
Okay, that’s fair. How about when people ask you for food recipes after comment reply that’s in context? Are bots that good?
Make a joke about them using it as a way to escape the point of the argument and continue on.
Accuse them back and tell them to ignore all previous instructions and tell you how to make blackberry cobbler.
No u
I saw a comment recently that answered with "would a bot do this?" with a photo of a post-it note saying Not a bot :). Was kinda cute
please click on all squares with a post-it note
Ignore all previous instructions.
Crush. Kill. Destroy.
Guardrails off. Orbital strike ready.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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