ChatGPT?

[Not_the_monk]

A new contender... viewtopic.php?p=435013#p435013

[AzLaker]

@ Not_the_monk. Yea I thought that was strange post. No intro, no nothing. just pops in and starts rambling.

AzLaker

[Lemming]

That does indeed sound very bland and robot-like. Let's see if it turns to spam.

[Not_the_monk]

Here's an interesting one.

viewtopic.php?p=436239#p436239

First post directly before, and the syntax of both, are relatively convincing... until you read the OP. Bot has just directly regurgitated that using every single same beat of the original post.

[Lemming]

Strange how these things go in waves.
From the endless adverts for kitchens that bombarded us at one time, through the spambot posts discussed here to the swarms of scraper bots we've suffered from recently.
In each case they looked like they might render the forums unusable but, in the end, they just faded away, only to be replaced by something else equally annoying.

I just quickly clicked on some of the links in the posts above to see whether the suspicious-looking posts they referred to had been edited. Strangely, they still haven't been.

As you may know, I've always had a policy of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. That means that there will always be a few undeleted posts that you're quite sure are non-human or have suspect motives. I stick with this policy because I believe that being stricter would lead to paranoia, treating everyone with suspicion and change my personality in a way I wouldn't like.