I’ve always questioned who and what is behind anything on the internet.
You can normally tell a bot when they don’t reply. They say something bombastic and get a lot of blow back but never respond.
I only trust you and me. And I’m not sure about you.
Fakebook and Reddit are awash in AI content and fake comments.
I would dare say that now at least half of new YouTube videos are AI-generated.
And AI bands, as well. And Spotify is passing them off as real artists.
So much of what is posted to various web sites as "news" is rudimentary, repetitive marketing?
After all, that web page has a YouTube video as well as the "Latest Geeky Gadgets Deals" and the "raising concerns about authenticity and manipulation" doesn't seem to be such an issue for all those selling and pleading for Patreon and BuyMeACoffee and GoFundMe and the like.
Geeky Gadgets is a British web domain and company, in operation since December, 2007. Looks like two guys -- Julian Horsey and Roland Hutchinson -- writing articles and -- wait for it -- selling stuff. "Buy now." That's the message at the bottom of the page. M A R K E T I N G
One observes at the VERY bottom of the web page is a section for comments. Since 1 July 2025, the date of the article, there have been NO COMMENTS.
But as they "disclaim: --- "Some of our articles include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, Geeky Gadgets may earn an affiliate commission." M A R K E T I N G
While the internet "could be" dead, marketing will never die.
Much of the videos on YouTube are AI narrated. Unless you actually see a human talking it’s 99.9% AI.
-SB
My hunch is that Grok and Leo are just five sweaty little geeks sitting on the floor with their laptops and pounding out replies to questions.
You mean like trolls and provocateurs? Or pr0n? Funny videos of cats? Where was this "creativity" before AI?
I think a lot of Amazon/Walmart customer service chat is bots
“Dating” sites have always used bots to impersonate customers.
There is a ‘commenter’ here who can be triggered into the same meaningless 4 word response rather easily.
I just read a couple of gun reviews in Guns and Ammo - Sept 2025.
Neither article had an author - I check because I recognize their biases and preferences and experience levels.
Both articles had a similar layout, and similar ‘tone’, and level of information - basic facts, not much personal observation.
I am currently theorizing they are AI.
I can see that many of the accounts that Facebook puts in my feed are fake and generated by AI.
The BIG question: are we all on Generative FR?
How,do I REALLY know that Openurmind isn’t a bot?
I just had an in-depth discussion with tech support on a Discord channel. Got my problem resolved after a few, life was good, but something felt... weird. Off, I guess. I copied and pasted the discussion into Chat and asked it if it was an AI bot I was talking to. “97% chance” it was. It had gone through my previous public postings, figured how to say what needed to be said and what to ask, and even used some UK slang like I’m prone to do.
I like people, and I avoid them so I can keep on liking them. But I’m wondering if I’m even going to miss them at all and just glom onto their replacements.
bots probably don’t mispel words.